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...Government had banned discussion of inter-allied debts, France must bar discussion of a reduction of Germany's debt to. her. He also stated that France would accept no negitiations which brought up the question of the occupation of the Ruhr. In his Sunday sermon at Brive he was as intractable as ever and accused the Germans of being " able to pay the cost in Anglo-Saxon countries of frenzied propaganda to inspire the pity of charitably inclined souls...
...Harvard, where chapel is anything but compulsory, such a program would approach the ridiculous. If the most desirable thing were to get a large congregation every morning, the obvious and least objectionable method would be compulsion. Dressing up a sermon to look like a lecture, or brazenly substituting timely-topic talks would spoil chapel for those who honestly want a religious service; and the others who might go could certainly not deceive themselves into thinking that they were going to a chapel. It would be absurd to turn the morning service into a forum and delight in the multitudes...
From the Freshman meeting in the Union to the Baccalaureate Sermon in the Chapel the Harvard student is advised and directed as to his course of life and study. But there are few remarks which are poured into his jaded ears more often than one to the effect that Harvard College is not a more training school or technical laboratory, but a center for broad and liberal education. Apparently the advice has borne some fruit and certainly Harvard does not seem to be in danger, at least as far as choice of studies is concerned, of descending to the department...
...Reverend Doctor J. R. P. Sclater, minister of the New North Church in Edinburgh. Scotland, will deliver the sermon in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...
...renunciation of passive resistance, her apparent willingness to come to terms with the French--these indices of a surrender which many people looked at as the final solution of the Ruhr dispute are not for a moment "taking in" the Premier of France. In his last Sunday's "sermon" the Premier announced his stand to an anxious world. Bristling with the most significant facts and couched in the brilliant language of the trained statesman they summarize and justify the stand which M. Poincare has so inflexibly upheld...