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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, is that spirit alone is real. Matter is the projection of mind; disease, "error" of thought. Members of her Church of Christ, Scientist, come to meetings. "Readers" recite sections of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures; at certain services fellow-believers rise and tell "experiences," express thanks for "favors" done them in misery. They have the consolation of being well regimented in one of 2,200 Christian Science congregations...
...filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern the beginning of its warp or woof." For in these two volumes, on a scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make up American civilization for three hundred years. There is no preface that explains that the author is very sorry that the limits of his study force him to omit all but the diplomatic history...
Being built of red cedar which absorbs practically no water it is one of the best crafts built. It arrived yesterday at the University Boat House by express...
...next stage in the Lampoon's development will, accordingly, be watched with interest. It has passed through the dangerous age. And the reviewer would like to express his conviction that never, not once, has the Lampoon's worst been one half as bad as the very best of most other college comic. Their jejune obscenities can be studied, by any sociologist who will take the trouble to collect an armful of them; and this will be an excellent thing for anyone who has lifted a supercilious eyelid at the peccadilloes of the Lampoon. The nastiness of little boys telling dirty...
...believe the Chinese have the right to express their views as well as the English or Americans, or others, and so long as I am engaged in the publication of an Amer-icn paper in Shanghai it is my intention to give them a square deal...