Word: reproach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England. More than 500 clergymen of the Church of England, including many canons, have pledged their support to the Labor Party. For a long time the Church has felt keenly the reproach that the working classes were being alienated from it because they found no friends among the clergy. A congratulatory address was sent to Ramsey Macdonald and the Labor M. P.'s which said : " We shall support actively in whatever ways are open to us the effort you will assuredly make for the spiritual and economic emancipation of the people...
Other institutions, less in the world's eye, cherish their idols without fear of comment or reproach. Generations of Annapolis men have worshipped the famous "Tecumseh, god of the passing mark," while the destinies of Amherst are shaped by that elusive goddess, the "Fair Sabrina," who appears to mortal eyes at yearly intervals. At Harvard, there is no god except the Subway rotunda, but since this is not generally known, it has given the "American" few headline thrills...
...Columbia ought to be regarded as a happy taken of the increase of spirituality in our universities. It would be a mistake to think of it as a concession to the spirit of materialism, to which these mighty stadium-cathedrals are being erected all over the country. This reproach can be leveled at other great men of football, perhaps; and it any one of them had come here we might perhaps be justified in saying that for all Columbia's great graduate and professional schools, for all its fifty or a hundred thousand Summer and extension-sion students, its executives...
...pettiness, and those who accept it must do so with blinded or winking eyes. Mr. McLane is the first to reject it openly and convincingly, but of course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece of art, however, the poem is smoothy done, and, like the "Cassandra", remarkably well contained. The verse-form-irregularly rhymed lambio pentameter-is a most difficult one, yet Mr. McLane manages his rhymes so skillfully that...
...goes without saying that members of this year's Freshman class are welcome to attend regularly or not; as they please. No one will reproach them if they do not; no particular appeals have been advanced to them to attend. The Chapel is there, the preachers are there; whether they go or not is a matter of importance to the freshmen only. The principle that the less college men are compelled to do and the more they do on their own account the better, is an abiding one at Harvard. It applies to the Chapel. Those freshmen who can truly...