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Frankly, however, the joke has gone quite far enough. The efficient drafting of the laws is the sine qua non of a rational civilization. It is time that we established enough coordination between the legislative and executive branches of the government so that the statutes on our books may possess at least a semblance of meaning. At present no one knows what many of our laws really say, and every one is aware of the fact. This do-as-you-please kind of statute is a menace to our national life, placing the public, as it does, at the mercy...
...thought is neither more nor less than a call to take a sensible middle course. Spiritual development of personality must depend on material opportunities; and therefore we should recognize, as a sine qua non for a progressive human being, a frank striving for money--and the time and things it can buy. And the goal of the terrestrial experiment seems to be the progress of the group as a group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal...
...Senior picture and Freshman offering will be taken simultaneously tomorrow--a function at which caps and gowns are a sine qua non. Have you a little cap-and-gown in your home...
...William Alva Gifford, who has been a student in the Divinity School for three years, will deliver the regular Friday evening sermon under the joint auspices of the Divinity School and Andover in Andover Chapel tonight at 7.30. The subject will be; "A 'sine qua non' of a Christian Ministry...
Domine salvam fac Universitatem nostram et exaudi nos in die qua invocaverimus...