Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women appeared in court scantily garbed, and men unshaven, complaining that an irate landlady and confiscated their respective clothes and razors." So runs the CRIMSON report, and let every undergraduate pray that it encountered no dean's wary eye. Not that any august member of the administrative board would consider attempting a second-story entrance into a seventh-grouper's room for the purpose of confiscating his neck-ties and garters. This would be clearly impracticable, for if the dean didn't accidentally get his room-mate's apparel, the delinquent could. And besides there might be unfortunate publicity...
Bishop Slattery, who is a member of the Board of Overseers and the Board of Preachers of the University, has written many books on the subject of his lecture tomorrow, among them being "Why Men Pray", and "The Authority of Religious Experience...
...school does not proselytize in religion, but by its influence leads away from the formalism of the older generation. I once saw an old Moslem, when the muezzin sounded, try to pray to the east while riding on a tramear. The curves kept him jumping. But that mechanical, ostentatious religion is being left behind by the educated...
...separate from their mother sent a pang through her heart more acute than any she had ever suffered. "When, to her dismay, the hard-hearted master arranged to take away the baby slave that still was suckling at her breast, her endurance was broken down completely. She supplicated and prayed, as parents pray, as you and I pray, to the gods on high when the dearest of our children lies in the clutches of grim death-to her master, arbiter of her destiny and, to her, as omnipotent in this crisis as fell Death himself, but all to no purpose...
Deans may threaten, rant and pray...