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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good old days when John, the Orangeman assuaged the undergraduate palate, to come back and find everything so changed. Not only architecturally,--there is a horrible spick-span new pile on the site of old Dane Hall with its pleasant lived buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug and "So's your old man". Except...
...arising some gorgeous, massive buildings in an Americanized Byzantine manner- rigid facades; a squatty dome; ornate yet severe decoration. They represent the first independent stand on education ever taken by Jewry in the 2,000 years of its exile. Out of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary has grown the Yitzchok Elchanan Yeshivah, in which there will be the first Jewish college ever established in the U. S., equipped to grant "the same academic degrees as other American colleges in a background thoroughly Jewish and thoroughly American in spirit...
...situation developed within the Labor Party ever since it adopted a political program 20 years or so ago. The development of the party has been accompanied by the formation of a group determined to control the government either through parliament or by a general strike. The radicals have grown impatient of the inch by inch progress which results from the policy followed by the American Federation. They demand quick action and the 'united front' which is essential to a general strike. They have perfected their organization and dealt the swift blow which they had been waiting to strike, but they...
...bill is passed; the World Court is entered (so far as Congress is concerned); the Italian debt is settled; the tariff, farm problems, postal rates, reclamation difficulties, senatorial cloture, labor problems in the coal mines and on the railroad have grown cold on the stove for want of a little fire; prohibition fury is bubbling away to nothing in a futile investigation...
...such good purpose did the young deacon put the freedom thus afforded him that Lincoln College was not so much honoring as honored when, on the bicentennial of his admission, it lately unveiled in its court a bust of John Wesley, founder of the largest* religious denomination that has grown up in the last 200 years-Methodism...