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Trustees of the Dudleian Lectures have appointed the Reverend George Hodges, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Stone Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Care, and Dean of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, to give the Dudleian lecture for the current academic year. His subject will be the "Validity of Non-Episcopal Ordination." The lecture will be given in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House, on Tuesday evening, April 8, at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public...
...developed technical industries to an unprecedented extent in this country, and the call for trained men is far greater than it ever was before. The need for chemical engineers, for marine architects, for men skilled in machine designing, is far beyond the available supply. Hence it is that the current has swung away from the so-termed cultural studies and is heading strongly toward professional training along scientific and technical lines. Boston Herald...
There is a phrase which is subtly returning to a too frequent use among students in the University, it is the two-word phrase "getting by". The current vocabulary lost this unfortunate expression during the win-the-war days. Then, anyone who employed it would have been looked upon with well-founded suspicion that he was shirking his duty. The best only was expected, and the best was given unhesitatingly by all. But as President Lowell warned the Freshmen earlier in the year, "the great moral effort which this war has required will surely be followed by a period...
...advance poster of this lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life...
...current issue of the Lampoon it is difficult to favor one morsel over another. Great credit must be accorded the artist whose creation decorates the cover. One man at present faces the world, and like all those who face the footlights, he must also face the music. In the Lampoon the strains are gentle and pleasing, without "Life's" harshness; yet they have a penetrating power peculiar to their composers, as in the case of his Excellency with one foot on the rail...