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With the approach of the presidential election, Harvard takes on a more fevered appearance. Buttons of various sizes and hues appear. Meetings of political groups, assemblies, debates, all fill the air with their cries and cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there...
...Anglican Lambeth Conference in 1900, the Lambeth Quadrilateral stands today, a noble idea like the League of Nations which may some day work. Its formulators invited all Christendom to accept: " 1) the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as revealed Word of God; 2) the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; 3) the two Sacraments -Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, ministered with un failing use of Christ's words of institution, and of the elements ordained by Him; 4) The Historic Episcopate locally adapted to the varying needs of the nations...
...Bingham's cry to college presidents is a voice in the wilderness, and it is to be hoped that some few will give heed to the warning. For if the present trend goes on, Harvard will soon find itself the only believer in the creed that football should be played for the love of the sport and not for the love of money...
...period, and of relying on original investigation rather than taking the opinions of others. "To seek; to continue to seek . . . Not to swear by the words of the masters; but to return to the facts, and to the criticism of the facts" was the rigid creed he pronounced for literary historians to follow, if they wish to discover the real truth of what lies in the past...
...plaintive radicals were inclined to inquire last week "Odets, where is thy sting?", sophisticated cinemaddicts were less surprised at the speed with which Hollywood had apparently caused Playwright Odets to modify his creed, than at that with which Playwright Odets had obviously acquired Hollywood's technique. Directed in somewhat over-ostentatious style by Lewis Milestone, The General Died at Dawn remains a first rate melodrama, vividly penned, performed and photographed. Good shot: a reporter (Novelist John O'Hara) getting credentials from General Yang by promising to run his story on the front page...