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...educators, scientists, writers, and leaders of though in all occupations and makes a plea for the modernization of religious teaching. While praising the Bible Professor Holmes advocates ridding the modern man of the necessity of a formal acceptance of many "mediaeval superstitions" in which the great organized churches persist. "The modern mind cannot and does not accept them actually, so we have the unfortunate and essentially dishonest situation of thousands professing to believe what they do not really believe...
...short words and monosyllables. Their language, like that of the Andaman Island pigmies, was uniquely their own. Others of these minuscule peoples, whom bigger intruders have driven from their original homes along the Congo, have learned the speech of their neighbors wherever they have secreted themselves successfully enough to persist-in Africa's interior, along the upper Congo, in Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines...
...systematically frisk the parked automobiles; others aid lost articles in staying lost perpetually, in spite of the efforts of the Lost and Found Department; other little magicians prove that the hand is quicker than the eye when exploring the pockets of the fallen devotees of Bacchus; and still others persist in destroying the pleasure of the game for those who find that one of these soiled ragamuffins has usurped a neighboring seat...
TIME may be said to have "flunked" in nearly every famed language, ancient or modern. Also, it has, on occasion, used nearly every famed language with great eclat. Therefore, far from omitting for eign words, TIME will persist toward perfection...
...nineties and the 'oughts and the 'teens. But it has been proved often enough that a small group of graduates may cripple any program of an institution by unintelligent opposition. Princeton and Harvard must continue to appear slightly absurd as long as some of their adherents persist in the mistaken zeal of self-righteousness...