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...proposal to strike revolvers from the list of controllable weapons was passed nem, con...
...Critic. If you con your memory of school days you will recall that Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote this play very long ago. Today it is fresh, modern. Whether the urge to satire and to burleque has penetrated the farmhouses and the uplands is difficult to say. Certainly our cities and our comic literature are crammed with it. They are crammed, furthermore, with exactly the type of satire and burlesque which Sheridan devised for The Critic...
...them to visit Oxford, Cambridge and the cathedral towns of England, were awarded to the following students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Theodore Merryman Hatfield of Evanston, Ill., Edward Buell Hungerford A. M. '22 of New Britain, Conn., Robert Gale Noyes A. M. '23 of Norwich, Con., John Webster Spargo of Kirkwood, Mo., Arthur Sprague '19 of York Village...
...intention of overlooking her debt to the U. S.; but, as Britain is willing to accept a sum from friend and foe on the Continent sufficient to pay her debt to the U. S., France is obliged to ascertain exactly what her commitments to Britain are before con sidering her obligations...
...Margaret Sanger's opinions by disputing her premises. Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her. But it was left for Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Arch bishop of New York, in his pastoral letter, last Sunday, to mark out the impassable barrier between birth con trol and the law of his Church. "Latterly, into the public eye has been thrust an open propaganda that shocks the moral sense of every true follower of Christ. Christian sentiment against it has found expression in the law of the land forbidding the dissemination of the knowledge of its practices...