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...life, modeled on life at Oxbridge." In twenty-three years in the House, Perk has decisively laid such doubts to rest. And as he retires this year from the Mastership, he leaves a House whose own traditions, and whose sense of tradition, he has kept burning brightly--like the flame of the Yule log and the light of the High Table candles--against the unseasonable winds of change...
...surface. Satellites and other spacecraft will measure all kinds of solar radiation, ultraviolet and X rays, that do not penetrate the earth's atmosphere. The sun's visible spectrum will be dissected for any detectable signs of differences during the quiet period. The great tongues of flame that leap from the sun's surface will be counted and measured...
...street corner in down town Atlanta, Georgia, there stands a nineteenth century lamp post with a marker describing it as "The Eternal Flame of the Confederacy." A fluttering gas light which, according to local story, has burned continuously since the earliest weeks of the Civil War, it embodies "the spirit, the traditions, the way of life" that were the escutcheon of the Old South...
...more recent years that flame has affected a peculiar new incandescence which shall soon warm and perhaps light a larger part of the deeper South; that South with its de facto capital in Atlanta is now undergoing a New Reconstruction. It is beginning a time of development which, in the aspirations of one Southern mayor, may cause the South to "blossom out into one of the great areas of the world...
...improvements in public education, and higher standards of health and welfare. They have, in fact, given to the average Southerner a little taste of what he thought was the grandeur of the Old South. It is in this sense that this New Reconstruction is a part of "The Eternal flame of the Confederacy." It kindles a regional pride which once more prompts the Southerner to work for social and economic progress. In North Carolina, South Carolina, and parts of Georgia it even prompted him to accept integration because to do otherwise would blemish the regional image and hold up Southern...