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...names in this novel seem to have come from unpretentious rural tomb stones, the thin sandstone kind that a man could carry under one arm : Lizzie Yoh, Theodosia Garrison, Phrany Luck-enbill, Lutie Markle, Jake Loy. Palmyra Scarlett, Seranus Mast. They live in towns like Jacob's and Unionville in Pennsylvania's Vale of Union, or up in the mining patches at Mahanoy near the Tulpehocken Trail. The prose is as homely as a bag of snitz. Some people get their dutch up, others are as meek as Moses. They eat victuals, marry helpmeets, and get around...
...earlier and more specific Biblical reference to tithing than the Exodus one is Genesis 28:22. After Jacob's dream, in which God offers him prosperity and guidance, Jacob promises that if God be with him, "I will surely give the tenth unto thee...
Other Republicans were worried about the split on the far right. In Brooklyn, New York's Senator Jacob K. Javits said that the party was doomed if it accepted the "freakish ideas" of those who sought to "repudiate the 20th century." Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall told a Seattle audience: "We won't survive by saying 'I won't play' - or by finding an enemy under every rug." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who got a two-minute ovation when he was introduced to a crowd of 13,000 in Cincinnati, pleaded for unity...
Nobody knows if Harvard, or any other college, has any lasting and individual effects on its students' values, personality, or goals. Philip Jacob, in Changing Values in College, concluded that ten colleges, including Harvard, did affect students appreciably, but the book, which infuriated partisans of many institutions, raised a very serious question whether the differences between the select ten were of any basic educational significance...
...normal healthy maturation away from the inflexibility of youth. Theodore M. Newcomb observed such growing liberalism at Bennington, and related it to the faculty's liberal values; a CRIMSON study of Harvard political and religious values showed a similar trend; the same movement is clear in the studies Jacob summarized. The similarity might argue that these diverse colleges are all the tools of liberal brainwashers; a more plausible interpretation is that the "liberalizing" schools attract students who would tend to mature in a liberal direction in almost any sort of educational setting...