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...discuss their differences of opinion. How anyone could see there a Greek Archbishop, a Buddhist from China, and a Confucian from Japan sitting side by side with Episcopal and Roman Bishops, talking with them in a friendly and sympathetic way and even expressing the same sentiment-and then quarrel about trivial sectarian difference is hard to understand. Various minor congresses of different religions and sects were held in the first part of September. A man going to these meetings heard invariably the same words of love and the same call for charity and for universal or brotherhood. On September...
...short story of the number "The Convict Who Escaped." It is rather a striking story. "Andy Rick's Handy Tricks," another short story written by L. K. Meekins, one of the editors of the Baltimore American. The poetry of the number is very good, the best being "After the Quarrel" and "The Kiss of Children...
...fair of aspect and beardless, and so great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...
...each one having its pet divinity, each divinity was all-powerful in its homes. Everything was disorganized; there was a great lack of method. Questions as to prerogatives of the divinities never arose; exact limits were not set to the powers of any god. There is never any quarrel as to which god is the chief one, the great point is that all are superior to man. Zeus was their father, he reigned but he did not rule; Apollo, "his premier," was the practical head. His home was Delphi, where he was worshipped side by side with Dionysus. His character...
...Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have had a quarrel about the date of their boat race. Cambridge has suggested either April 1st or 2nd. To either of these dates Oxford objects on account of the inconvenient tides on those days. Oxford suggests March 22. Cambridge is not willing to row so early because their "crew needs at least three weeks practice at Putney...