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...will learn the dreariness of this type of work. But as yet they retain their maidenly assurance. And it was in this mood that last week, at the behest of their Director Edward Henry Eldridge, they examined the current prudency of the Ten Commandments. They found that God had graven His Commandments...
Doubtless Mrs. Coolidge would recall the inscription on her cornerstone, and be pleased to find many more by the same author graven here and there within the edifice. The author was diminutive twinkle-eyed the Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University and of U. S. letters, a close friend of Dr. Irvine. Never the nation's laureate, Dr. van Dyke was yet to have a work of his attended, upon its first public hearing, by the first lady and gentleman of the land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn...
...moment being a forecaster is hard enough. What with Yale and Dartmouth. Princeton and Navy, etc., I become convinced that the forecaster's heyday is the first two weeks in October. Most forecasters, that is. But not I. "The blacker the cloud, the silverer the lining," was graven on the Forecast coat of arms centuries ago when the first Baron Forecast was Lord High Grave-Digger in Waiting for the wives of Henry VIII. And that's the way I am. So paste these in you hat until you read your Sunday papers...
...compulsory worship. Individualism was the keynote. New life entered the law and divinity schools. The libraries were expanded for research. "Virtue . . . duty . . . piety . . . righteousness," were more real words then than now; Dr. Eliot used them often. After 40 years, the name of John Harvard himself was no more deeply graven upon the tablets at Cambridge than Dr. Eliot's when he retired, at 75, "to spend the evening of his life in serenity...
John Heath's chapter-brothers last week performed rites initiating, causa honoris, Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, who is now entitled to dangle upon his watch-chain the familiar golden watch-key graven with three stars and a pointing hand...