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...have been in India investigating and writing for the Christian Science Monitor and other newspapers. And for the problems existing there through religious superstition, racial hostility and British commercial exploitation of the Indian peoples, the most promising solution is, it seems to me, the spreading influence of the sort of Christianity which is taught and lived by men like Dr. Jones, the Christianity not, let us say, of Fifth Avenue, but of Jesus Christ. Too much can never be said in praise of Dr. Jones and his work, and his book is one of the outstanding contributions of this...
...couple left Moscow, prying Soviet correspondents queried the bridegroom as to what sort of reception he expected to get on returning to Chile. "I fear that my marriage is likely to go unrecognized there," he smiled. "But I happen to live and practice law in Peru. It makes me feel better to have my union with Martha regarded as legal by at least one Great Power...
Like the spiteful dwarf or pixie in a fairy tale, the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden made all sorts of mischief, last week, in the House of Commons. He may even have lost (or, by a strange paradox, won) the coming General Election for his party (Laborite). Insulting Frenchmen, roiling Italians, vexing U. S. statesmen and bringing tears to the eyes of His Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, were a few of the pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced...
...golden way out, and they are willing to try anything that offers, even to searching about and finding something that the pupil will like rather than helping him to like what time has proved most likely to be valuable. Without much doubt there has been too much of this sort of thing: and President Lowell as head of one of the colleges in America which has been most successful in instilling an "appetite for intellectual things" is well qualified to spread a more reasonable gospel among the secondary schools...
Another, enlivening influence is the fact that education of a liberal sort can be pursued once more within the playhouse as well as the lecture hall. For with the end of the New York season Boston is privileged to see a few of the more noteworthy stage celebrities. Walter Hampden's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Eva La Gallienne's Repertory company are both attractions of the very near future, and only slightly more remote is the promise of "Show Boat...