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"One may wonder why my connections with field athletics would bring to my mind the subject of politeness, so I'll explain how this idea came to me. The men of Harvard are the cause of it. They are the most courteous and polite set of men I have ever...
" 'The powers that be (the Constitution of the United States) are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.' (Romans, 13:1 & 2).
I wrote you recently that I could attend to the renewal of my subscription to your magazine on my return from Europe in September. I write now to say that I shall not renew. Your bitterly partisan and malicious misrepresentation of the Prayer Book Question in England & of the Anglo...
Spanish scurriers to dictionaries were intrigued and mystified by the primary meaning of lustrum: a Latin word signifying the festival at which Romans purified themselves by sacrificing to the Gods many a pig, sheep, bull. Was beefy Dictator de Rivera announcing Spanish sacrifices of pork, mutton, beef?
Except for the wit of his gymnastics, his was not an usual case of arthritis. Doctors know very little about the disease. Yet the Romans suffered from it, by the knobby bones of their skeletons, and the Greeks, the Egyptians, even the Stone Age men who lived in French caves...