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...Universe. Few men have been as successful in pointing out the link between religion and science. During many years it has been his fortune to help undergraduates and others, in public address and by private counsel, to see that scientific truth can not conflict with religious truth. Quick to discern the assumptions of both science and religion, he suggests that both adhere to an experimental fact-finding method of considerable severity, with open mind where the facts are not or can not be known...
...King Fuad of Egypt steamed out in his serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
...every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only the most patient can cure...
Prophetic U.S. citizens who peered futureward ten years, last week, could not discern a President who will dare publicly to drink their health...
...similar discovery has apparently been made by the History Department during the past year. Students, professors, and outsiders have long racked their brains in an effort to discern some significance in the numbers assigned to the various history courses. What the number 30 has to do with Modern European history or 14 with that of the French Revolution has remained as much of a mystery as why 3 should lead to a knowledge of the Roman Empire or 32 to the general history of the United States. But it has recently been discovered that numbers, in themselves meaningless, can carry...