Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most significant news of this week is the meeting in Zürich of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. This alliance includes all Christian churches of the world except the Roman Catholic. It holds that the League is the best means of international justice and friendship and says that the task of the churches of every land is to inspire among their people an enthusiasm for the great conception of the League and a willingness to labor for its complete realization. A committee of 26, containing both French and German members, presented a report urging that...
...literary world as editors and contributors to the "highbrow" weeklies, critics of books and the drama, colyumists and readers for publishing houses, have combined to form not alone a mutual admiration society, but also an exclusive literary coterie, admission to which is denied candidates who have not the personal friendship of the charter members. Only thoroughgoing social radicals are welcome. Clearness and cleanness, coupled with a sound belief in American institutions, is a fatal...
...actual internal quarrels of New York literary life that they confuse dogmatic assertion with evidence. A study of the daily and weekly writings of the " young dictators" and their egregious failures to " put over " or kill certain plays or books reveal, not partisanship, pull and capitulation of personal friendship, but an actual leaning over backward to be honest. In spite of the unanimous condemnation of Abie's Irish Rose and So This Is London by the cult of young critics, these plays are running merrily on to a full year of performances. In spite of the efforts...
...machinery for taking attendance is not at fault. The easy-going monitor and the student who takes advantage of his friendship are simply an unavoidable outgrowth of the whole system. Their attitude cannot be changed by any external means. But when the question of voluntary attendance comes up for consideration, the shortcomings of the monitorial system are likely to be an argument in its favor...
...week of March 18 was Anti-War Week, sponsored by four bodies-The Church Peace Union, The World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (headed by Robert E. Speer), The World Peace Foundation...