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Stalin and Religion. As a matter of course Stalin and every member of the Communist Party accept as gospel Lenin's further dictum: "Religion is opium for the people...
Both the facts of the Cagle case and the present dictum from the Middle West are indicative of the fact that the West Point athletic authorities will have to alter their standards in the near future. It is only fair to Army's opponents to do so. Such a change will not only remove an unethical principle from football and keep the Army on good terms with all the universities, but it would also remove the bone of contention from the Army-Navy quarrel and make the resumption of relations between the two service institutions the natural outcome...
Although in this case the dictum is from above, this bit of news fits in with a trend that sooner or later is bound to become dominant in American colleges. Prohibition has so enormously increased the emphasis on drinking as a part of the extra-curricular activity that a revulsion is already in embryo. In the future sobriety will come into vogue; the advantages of the sober or partially, sober over the obviously influenced will obtain due publicity; and the prom-trotter of tomorrow will no longer be forced to battle against an intoxication more sure though less subtle than...
Apply this dictum to the body of poetry before you, either regarding it as a whole, or treating it with reference to the work of each poet individually...
...pompous and slow" is Amelita Galli-Curci's scornful dictum regarding grand opera. The soprano gives vent to this Parthian shot as she strides out for the last time before New York's "Golden Horseshoe". Coming from a singer who is herself neither pompous nor, one likes to think, slow, the criticism strikes the operatic world peculiarly abeam...