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Religion v. Materialism. Solon Barnes is a Quaker, brought up in unworldliness. He marries (for love) into a richer family of Friends and becomes a Philadelphia banker. For many years he floats along on uneasy rationalizations about the sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to...
In 1941 Sarah Blanding joined Cornell's faculty. The next year she became the first woman dean of Cornell's New York State College of Home Economics. She looked pretty austere when she arrived, with her hair done up in a bun, and no hat. But Cornell coeds...
Local boards were ordered to make a drastic cut in physical requirements. Any man who has been able to fill a civilian job despite stuttering, partial paralysis, a hernia or a crooked spine, will be deemed suitable for the interim army. So will other 4-Fs previously disqualified because of...
¶ In San Diego, 13-year-old Lionel Dodson sat down and wrote a letter to a 12-year-old neighbor girl named Joan Lepper. "You will never know how much I love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of...
"We lived in the Gothic Middle Ages-and I am thinking not only of the skyline with its painted towers, gates and walls . . . the crooked, haunted-looking alleys. ... In the atmosphere itself something had clung of ... the hysteria of the dying Middle Ages, something of latent spiritual epidemic. It'...