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...have not yet had a release to announce that Isaiah's way of the saints is to be staked out through the New York Stock Exchange as a Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well our 20th-century business highway! Let us crucify the thieves, as Pontius Pilate would have done had he been attending to his job. But do not ordain that everyone moving along on his lawful occasions shall conform his pace to that of the slowest and worst-equipped blunderer...
Knight W. McMahan '33, 3G; Mark Mazel '36, 1G; Branford P. Millar '35, 2G; Henry S. Miller '35, 2L; Russell A. Nixon 2G; Rodman W. Paul '36, 1G; Reginald H. Phelps '30, 6G; Joseph H. Phillips '35, 2M; Dale Pontius, assistant in Government; Stephen H. Stackpole '33, secretary to the President; Oscar Sutermeister '32, 1G; Robert R. Walcott '31, assistant in History; Roger H. Weed '34, 1L; and Arthur Wild...
Just after cockcrow on the Friday of the Crucifixion, the betrayer of Jesus Christ learned that the Sanhedrin had condemned the Messiah, that he had been taken before Pontius Pilate. Unhappy Judas rushed to the priests, cried: "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." When they shrugged and said, "What is that to us?," Judas threw down his 30 pieces of silver "and departed, and went and hanged himself." So later wrote St. Matthew, whose Gospel contains a few more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone...
...great men of all countries. Nationalism, with its warping provincialism, induces an illiberal and lazy habit of mind which exalts one's tribal gods at the expense of all other deities. Men ask, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" and like Pontius Pilate they do not stay for an answer to their question. The reputation of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) has suffered as a result of this cultural parochialism. Pushkin occupies a place in Russian literature similar to that of Shakspere in English, yet not even the brightest English-speaking schoolboys know anything about him. Difficulties of language...
Moving spirit in the circulation of the petition has been Dale Pontius, assistant in Government, who is a member of the Teachers' Union. Copies of the paper will be sent to all seven of the Cambridge Representatives and Senators, in an effort to impress upon them the fact that it will mean loss of important votes if they do not support repeal of the oath...