Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle is one between freedom and dogma, between the adjustment of religion to our knowledge and the rejection of knowledge because it does not fit into a theology centuries old. "You men at Harvard," he continued, "are little concerned with the theological questions of any particular church. You care very little for the details of a controversy over the action of certain Bishops, or the heresy of a minister or even the division of a church. But most of you are deeply interested in religion in an abstract way." He concluded by saying that college men think for themselves...
...rowing this fall will be given a period of relaxation. Coach Stevens feels that too much work on the machines and tank will do not good to men who have behind them three months of actual rowing on the river. They will be expected, however, to keep themselves physically fit by some form of exercise...
...Eloquence on Mr. Bauer's part, heroic effort by Mr. Monteux, nothing could redeem this very dry concerto except a very few passages in the less uninteresting last movement. If there is any meaning to this work, as there may be, since an artist of Mr. Bauer' rank sees fit to play it, we are unable to discover...
...desire to write a memoir of my life" seems the strangest of fiction. Yet a passage in his will makes it an unfortunate but transparent fact: " I give to my nephew, Guy Estell Morley, all my correspondence, diaries and written fragments, to be dealt with as he may think fit, at his own discretion. And, as it is possible that some person may desire to write a memoir of my life, I enjoin upon my executors and each of them to refuse to aid or encourage any such designs and not allow any such person to have access...
...added: " I question not men now, but their philosophy of government. That which obtains at Washington does not fit present-day needs. Ultra-conservatism there rules; Progressivism challenges...