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...accusations concerning law-breaking among public officials in the national capital, "my words were interpreted as an indictment of the entire staff of municipal and federal officers in Washington. I believe, however, that the large majority of my colleagues steadfastly practice the prohibition which their votes and public actions profess...
Almost 100%. According to the Canadian Bureau of Statistics, Canada is 98% Christian. About 125,000 are Jews. Some 90,000 profess no religious connections...
...vista is opened into a vast field rich in a harvest of new words never reaped. It as certain members of the New York writing fraternity profess to believe, that mysterious future, the genius of the English language is really dead, who has the uncontested right to nominate himself its successor? The position is open to all comers. An era of independence is dawning every man for himself...
...comings in or goings out mar the uproarious comedy of the five acts. One is haunted by the feeling that taken seriously, Mr. Shaw may turn out to be a serious man, and his plays truer than people think. Alfred Dolittle, as an impersonation of "undeserving poverty", which he professes with enthusiastic candor, as others would profess religion or socialism, reveals much that is commonly unsuspected in the relations of the poor whom we have with us always. Mr. Shaw utilizes a very old literary convention when he makes his characters reveal in the first person all the secrets, even...
...Reaction; and yet the tradition of Harvard has always been liberal. From the days of the bitter church controversies in the early nineteenth century, through the recent war, Harvard has stood for Liberalism in a much more truthful way than many of the great or small colleges that profess to be open to "all the people." When one recalls that the first active collegiate Socialist society was founded at Harvard some ten or twelve years ago--(when Socialism was decidedly unfashionable)--it is amusing to find that in certain quarters liberalism at Harvard is just being discovered. To some, tolerance...