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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kept secret until last week, this committee's report deplores progressive weakening since 1908, when the bishops called birth control "demoralizing . . . hostile," and 1914, when it was "dangerous . . . sinful." Courteously the report notes that the bishops were careful to affirm the indissolubility of marriage, "but less careful to maintain the consequences of the principle." Accordingly the Lower House committee tightens up. Not only should divorced persons be denied remarriage in the church, says the report, but also they should be denied Holy Communion-even the innocent person in a divorce for adultery...
Personal interests would logically prefer to maintain the former situation under which the capitalistic minority reaped the greatest profits from economic activities and the masses got crumbs hardly sufficient to feed themselves and continue to work...
...heights which Mother Advocate sometimes reaches. There is a real need for a magazine which is not first literary, but first Harvard, which can publish controversial articles, such as are present rarely attempted, and which can, because it does not depend on poetry and fiction for all its material, maintain a consistently high standard for the poetry and fiction which it does print. For the Advocate editors to do this would be doubly difficult. They would have to ignore custom and habit, and build up a new reputation, perhaps losing much that is good in their old reputation. However, there...
There is in any event no assurance that the next German cabinet will possess even the small measure of stability that Chancellor Bruning's had. Only the "revolution by constitutional means" which the Nazis seek could procure that, and a revolutionary government could maintain itself only by an attitude toward France which would set back for years the efforts to make a peaceful Europe...
...problem is a long step in the right direction and should certainly be welcome in a society of men supposedly bent on securing a sound education and understanding of the world. If the Harvard Inquiry receives the support which its preliminary outline appears to deserve, and if it can maintain its program at the high standard which its founders desire, it should become a valuable organization for alert undergraduates...