Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Sperry's group, which meets on Friday evenings, is considering "Some of the Obstacles to Religions Faith," next time with particular reference to "Evil." professor Bixler's group, which meets the first Monday evening of the month, is working on "The Philosophies of the Good Life of Various Men." such as William James and Buddha...
...present the case of the plaintiff in default of Mr. Bingham's (and the Olympic Committee's) exposition. I am of course concerned with the statement of the case which Mr. Bingham makes, but I feel, with all due respect to Mr. Bingham, that in this particular instance it in permissible to put the facts of the developments in this question in the shadow of moral right and justice. It is not, mind you, that the Committee on Fair Play in Sports does not have a leg to stand on should the issue be decided utterly on its legal merits...
...light of the above considerations, Harvard proposes to create a new sort of professorship which shall not be attached narrowly or finally to any particular department. Departmental work is to go on as before, since it will be as necessary and important as ever. But it is proposed that these new chairs shall be endowed under terms of gift that will not rivet them immovably in one spot on the map of the field of learning. When this is done, it will be possible to fit a chair to a man, instead of squeezing a man into a fixed chair...
...they will just drop a note to the White House, be virtually assured of a formal chit from the President of the U. S. expounding his sympathy with their aspirations, his admiration for men of their calling, perhaps his appreciation of the civic virtues of their creed, race, or particular forbears. Last week the members of the New York Board of Trade settled back in their chairs at luncheon to hear a chit written by the President specifically to be read to them. It had come in answer to a letter from one of their officers, assuring the President that...
...with complete understanding and cooperating fully. And on the other side of the picture I see the forces of righteousness, the Christian men and women of this land, huddled together in some scores of pitifully small groups, each more interested in seeking to increase the consumption of his own particular brand of denominationalism or sectarianism than having in mind administering to the souls and bodies of suffering humanity...