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...enjoyed the kindly, if impersonal welcome; I highly appreciated the inspiring language of your best men; nevertheless, what I would like to have been shown at the first was a shrine, where I might, with all the fervor of an incoming Freshman pledge myself and my allegiance to the Harvard that I saw before...
...while a human spirit wags and gutters in the draught of death, men pray rashly, and implore with extravagant promises the mercy of the Deity. If Christ will deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows. Not so Oscar E. Konkle, President of the Realty Sureties, Inc., of Manhattan...
believe in miracles but you cannot deny their adaptability to the cinema. This one is from Clarence Buddington Kelland's novel Miracle. Under discussion is the restoration of sight at the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré in Quebec. Shortly after, the hero and the girl plot another miracle (to them) : their marriage. He lost his eyes in a fight back in the furry wilds. A generally capable history, somewhat more serious than usual...
...Grand Army of the Republic also opposes restoration of the Lee mansion at Arlington Heights by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which desires to make the mansion a Confederate shrine...
...fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair's rabidness...