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Baptists are poor. They make no pretentions to wealth and power, even though they have occasional Rockefellers and Hardings and Lloyd Georges as life-long adherents to their simple, direct, Bible creed. They give their mites to charities, schools and missions. Their preachers are poorly paid, as are those in general of every creed and religion. Their pastors must work, and willingly, in professions and trades. But their calloused fingers can gently, reverently turn the Bible's pages. Of their donations: "The Northern Baptists seem to be just as stingy [as the Southern...
Helen Hamilton Gardener, an author and the only female member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, recently died (TIME, Aug. 17). Among other things which she left in her will was her brain, bequeathed to the Cornell Brain Association to prove her life-long contention that the brain of a woman is not inherently inferior to that...
...Author. Mrs. George Crichton Miln (Louise Jordan Miln) has been a life-long admirer of China. Writing about it is her favorite amusement. Among her books are Mr. Wu, The Feast of the Lanterns, The Green Goddess...
...conceived by the average fan. The hero, gifted with a winning smile, infallibility, a flat stomach and gangle shanks, sells his services to "Magnificent Pictures" at an initial salary of one dime per week and progresses in nine years to the dignity of a divorce scandal and his life-long ambition: "Isidor Iskovitch Presents." The story of his rise begins with the assembling of a $10,000-stake from seven Iskovitch uncles blessed with red beards and businesses of the varying styles to be expected from the name, and closes with million-dollar mergers, assisted by the flapper granddaughter...
...true that the "sharp cleavage between the periods of cultural and professional training causes a professional student to lose all his cultural habits while he concentrates on preparation for the serious business of life"? It is hard to define "cultural habits", but presumably, they are the life-long habits which the College is now supposed to create. If the professional student loses these habits during his severe training, the college has not succeeded; and the remedy for this is not an amalgamation of college and graduate school, but an improvement in college methods...