Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dangerously upon the fanatical. Manifestations of Providence can too easily be misinterpreted in the light of human pleasure to be at all times a trust-worthy guide. To a college student, moreover, whose experiences are more or less apt to be limited, the camouflaged nature of the revival meetings present an attractive outlook; when, however, all his thoughts become interpretations of divine will, his mind can scarcely be receptive to the more tangible facts of education...
These films were taken under the direction of Mr. Haeseler, who is at present working on a film of Harvard University. The films to be released are on a wide variety of subjects and are of different lengths, ranging from one to three reels...
...related as an instance of Puritan bigotry and intolerance. Dunster, since his arrival, had been an orthodox Calvinist and member of the Cambridge Church but by careful study he reached the conclusion, some time in 1653, that the baptism of infants was unauthorized by scripture. Accordingly he refused to present for baptism his son who was horn in the fall of that year. The news that President Dunster had become a Baptist created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today if President Lowell should announce his adherence to communism. For the Baptists...
Absolutism of one sort or another, so popular at present in southern and eastern Europe, is undoubtedly justified in a case where ten years of representative government produced little but turmoil, riots and even assassinations on the floor of the legislative chamber. Those familiar with the past and present maps of Europe will remember that the Jugo-Slavian government has in addition at least one other "submerged nationality" to deal with, the Montenegrins, whose support of the Allied cause was rewarded by the loss of their independence at the Peace Conference...
...greatest fear at present is that the influenza epidemic which has been travelling eastward for the past few weeks, may hit Cambridge, for it has not done so yet, according to Dr. Means, who states that there are few true influenza cases in the University now, mostly just tonsilitis, bronchitis, and colds...