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...proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship...
Tradition, sentiment, the hopes of the founder, all have their weight on the side of an independent and communal Union, and against an all-Freshman or a hybrid Freshman-upperclass-dining-common room scheme. Practicality is of far greater moment, and the need under the House Plan of such a general club as the Union now is, especially during the difficult initiation of the new, is self-evident...
Last fortnight, Son Littauer made the crowning gift of a long series of philanthropies. He gave $1,000,000, promised more, to a foundation bearing his name, in "the cause of better understanding among all mankind," and for "altruistic activities of every nature, charitable, humanitarian, educational, religious and communal...
...Principality, embers of revolution were a-glowing. The first alarm was sounded when the Parliament of Monaco -called the National Council-resigned en masse. The second alarm was figuratively turned in by Monaco's one Minister of State, florid, flustered M. Louis Eugene Maurice Piette, after the Communal Council of Monaco. Like delighted children at a fire, the tourists and gamblers of Monte Carlo shrilled questions: "Is it really a revolution? What's it all about? What will the Prince do when he gets here...
Experienced Prince Pierre de Polignac temporized, seemed to yield. By all means let there be a commission! Affably His Highness named three each of the resigned National and Communal councilmen to compose the Commission. Also the smart son-in-law had a proclamation from Prince Louis to read-a paternal, gently reproving proclamation...