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...States during the pre-War of 1812 period. At first the frequent use of obsolete words in conversation leads to a measure of resentment, for one fears that the writer is setting out to display a large and scholarly knowledge of the period under his pen. But none can condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels westward, eastward, southward...
...said he knew nothing of the girl's fate. Attempts to obtain information from two other taciturn Indians who were held, were equally fruitless. U. S. District Attorney John C. Gung'l went from Phoenix to White River. Friend of Indians, he announced: "It is unfair to condemn the Apache tribe because this brutal killing took place on its reservation...
...disparagement to them; nor does it involve a judgment on them, or necessarily on the issue involved. To say that no memorial shall be raised to men who gave their lives for a cause unless those who died on the other side are included is either to condemn the cause as unworthy of the sacrifice; or to say, like barbarians, that all warfare is glorious, and that all who died in battle are to be honored simply because they were warriors...
...England the King gingerly functions like the Pope; for extreme cause he, too, may remove a bishop. The Protestant Episcopal Church lacks both Pope and King. Its ruler is a House of Bishops, a senate of sanctified aristocrats elected by priests and laymen. Only the House of Bishops may condemn an erring fellow. Methodists also elect their bishops. But a Methodist bishop's office is executive. He is a superintendent, has no more sanctity than a minister (see col. 2). Among the apostolic churches, however, a man's consecration as bishop ranks him closer than the priests...
...refusing to curtail spring practice the wishes of the players have won out over the demands of the reformers. It is well known that the players desire spring practice. Only those who want it need participate. Consequently it makes little difference whether or not the associations of athletic officials condemn spring practice...