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Again will the latter gentleman kindly inform me who has been and who is advocating that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...
...well known that something must be done about it." This statement of our Defender of the Faith is wrong or right according to the meaning of the term religion. If by that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates the while about glory, salvation and sin--then we may safely and thankfully say that Harvard...
...part of the proposed, and in some respects, of the already functioning Harvard system That Harvard is content to allow lectures to continue while she undertakes the tutorial policy is characteristic, and in that sense, good. Not possessed of any sanguine faith in the impossible, but ready to conform to the needs of the passing years in so far as those needs do not encroach upon her function as a university of culture and intelligence, Harvard faces the future as honestly and with as much pride as she remembers her past. And to do both is fundamentally necessary...
Recent explosions of labor troubles at Passaic have reenforced the impression of that town's turbulence. Its outbreaks conform curiously to precedent: a crowd of jeering strikers, a detachment of militant police, stone throwing, clubbing and arrests are stereotyped events often recounted in the newspapers...
...show, entitled "1776", is in fact consistent with its title both in respect to music and dancing. All the dances conform to the old style...