Word: epictetus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to become president of Union Theologic Seminary (TIME, Nov. 15), his old congregation has been as unhappy as a household with a cook about leave. The trustees, fed for 22 years on Dr. Coffin's fare of thought, have sought for some young Epictetus to take his place and last week they named their choice...
...soft chant of "come 'leven" and rumbling of ivory over wood. Pay nineteen! We wonder if this change has been all for the good. This new method of removing undergraduate inhibitions has certain disadvantages over the old. "A big head is better than an empty purse" is attributed to Epictetus. The road to freedom from the worries of exams and cuts is much smoother when it runs through fragrant vineyards than when it winds across the chequered fields of chance...