Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your quotation from a pastoral letter of Cardinal Hayes, relative to birth control, in your issue of Dec. 17 is all right in its way but does not state the Catholic view point on the subject. May I direct your attention to the November issue of the Catholic World of New York. In this issue there is an article entitled "The Church and Eugenics," by Rev. Bertrand L. Conway of the Paulist Fathers. In part it says...
Leonora Canwick enlists in the A. E. F. and get quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning...
...schools of the principal Southern cities and confer with principals and teachers on questions of admission to college. Incidentally he will talk to Harvard Clubs and other meetings of Harvard men, discussing with them the newest developments in Cambridge and answering their questions about the University. His prime subject, however, is to acquaint educators and pupils with entrance requirements of the Eastern colleges and with other matters related to college entrance...
...college journalism, if any. Periodically there arises the question of whither is the undergraduate newspaper going; the medium of judgment chosen by observers is the editorial pages of college papers. The latest criticism, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is an epitome of all that has been said on the subject lately. It asserts that college editors fail to harmonize the tone of their editorial columns with the responsibility that is theirs by virtue of their place as representatives of the college in print. Cynicism, flippancy, and disregard of conventionalities are specific charges...
Rasputin. When a guest broached to the Grand Duke Alexander the subject of the notorious "Black Monk" called Rasputin, or the "Debauchee," he recoiled with a slight gesture of disgust. Since His Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief patroness of Rasputin, no subject would well have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very...