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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard for Mohammed, who believed in war. I discount Christian ritual, holding for the Sermon on the Mount, the Golden Rule. I discount church services and spoken prayers. I declare there are sermons in thunderstorms, wildflowers, oakleaves, snowflakes, squirrels. I advise religionists to adopt the methods of the scientists: obtain irrefutable, concrete data proving Immortality. Then men will have to believe, if the score is only 52 points to 48 points in Immortality's favor. I declare an educational church will save the world...
...least $400 or $500 with which to start. It is possible for a man to earn from $5 to $20 a week during the term time apart from whatever he may receive through scholarships and the Loan fund. Occasionally men with special training or talent can obtain positions which pay much more than the above amounts...
...Club, in selecting plays to produce, have always inclined toward pieces written by students of the College, rather than to those of external authorship. Later in the year there will be an opportunity for those who are interested in writing plays for presentation by the Club to obtain practical instruction in playwriting, Gross said. Plays may be of any length and of any type. Manuscripts should be in the hands of C. H. Johnston '27, at 52 Plympton Street, by Saturday Candidates for other departments of the Club will be called out in about two weeks, it was also announced...
...Government-inspired German news organs declared next day that Dr. Stresemann had offered to place half a billion gold marks' worth of German railways preferred stock at the disposal of the Allies on condition that M. Briand should obtain the following concessions: complete evacuation of all German territories occupied by the Allies; recovery by Germany of the Sarre Valley; and the acquisition by Germany of the Belgian districts, Eupen and Malmedy...
...larger class which has not that opportunity, is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers, and gets therefore a much greater enjoyment out of life than the much larger class that earns a livelihood chiefly by the exercise of bodily powers. You ought to obtain here, therefore, the trained capacity for mental labor, rapid, intense, and sustained. That is the great thing to get in college, long before the professional school is entered. Get it now. Get it in the years of college life. It is the main achievement of college life to win this...