Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yoga is an ingrown Hindu philosophical system whose object is fusing the "individual soul" with the "universal soul." Hindu yogins achieve that mystic goal after years of practice in emotional serenity and bodily control. The desired physical relaxation of yoga is achieved by means of contortions which "purify" the body. U. S. devotees of yoga are usually more interested in the philosophical and religious than the gymnastic aspects of the system. In India, on the other hand, the most extraverted yogin to appear in centuries, Swami Kuvalayananda, thinks so highly of the physical side of yoga that he has developed...
Aside from these facts, one may object to a peace meeting being addressed by Powers Hapgood, though the causes of peace and of labor are surely not wholly separate, and Mr. Hapgood is a well-known liberal as well as labor sympathizer. The many backers of the Peace Strike indicate that it will not place "undue emphasis . . . upon the problems that confront labor." It is bad taste to speak of a professor from another great university as "haranguing" an audience, before the fact; it is simply misrepresentation to describe Professor Lovett as you have, and to omit all reference...
...seen the horrors of war and contemplated the tragedy of the mass slaughter that war entails, can fail to appreciate the motives that are causing peace strikes all over the country. But there are many who strenuously object to beclouding the issue with social problems and labor agitation. Every national malady should be treated and discussed at the right time and place, and labor problems are very pressing in this day and age, but a peace strike is not the place to air labor's grievances. The most forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely...
...such a game with just such features. Two to six persons may play. Each is given a cardboard newspaper front page dummy. Players roll dice in rotation, take from compartments numbered two to twelve, according to the total of their dice, an item, headline, picture or special instruction card. Object of the game is to complete the make-up of the newspaper front page so as to gain greatest possible circulation credit. Top story on the printed rating list, which is consulted when all players have "gone to press," is the abdication of Edward VIII: 1,000,000 credits. Bottom...