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...factors which make her the leading University of the country. But if religion means an appreciation of the works of nature and a feeling of admiration for their creator which manifests itself not in the blind worship of a concept set up by some one else but in a search for the true Uultimate whatever it be, the regard for the rights and opinions of our fellow men, the desire to lead good, clean, useful lives and the feeling that each should do his bit for the betterment of society--then there is as much religious feeling in Harvard...
...revivalist to merit much comment. But nevertheless I can not but wonder if the men I knew who died in France would have been so comforted by the assurance that a temple erected to their memory would lure "thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness" that to find fault with the plans of suggest a different memorial would constitute a sacrilege. A Poll taken among men before going into battle might yield interesting results...
...must raise a finger of score at those who dislike the sketch of the new chapel. They certainly do not know their architecture. And if anything will ever penetrate the heavens in search of a just creator the steeple on the new chapel certainly will. It will be one more point of interest beside the glass flowers...
...finest architects in New England? This vignette of loveliness planted among the ancient elms in the Yard will be a true religious inspiration to all thinking souls. Its spacious porticos and massive columns will be an inducement to thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness. It will be an basis of holiness in a desert of sin. Anthony Feathersione...
VACHEL LINDSAY'S poems (for, generally speaking, they are poems) will make any reviewer search his soul for the private definition of poetry on the basis of which he is supposedly working. They are, contradiction or not, colloquial and affected, at the same time reminiscent of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and yet this latest volume of his verse shows that he can still hit down at the root of things in the same manner that has made "General William Booth" and "The Congo" such favorites with both perspicuous readers and amateur reciters...