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What with all the epistles from reproving old gentlemen, giddy flappers, learned scholars, and even the mentally unbalanced, the editors feel that when the winner is announced in the March issue of the magazine, a superhuman task will have been accomplished...
...what is religion? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as "Human recognition of superhuman controlling power, and especially of a personal God entitled to obedience." Religion is the natural outcome of human experience both rational and mystical; it is a recognition of those principles which are beyond the direct comprehension of man. Religion took the form of recognition of a personal God, because that was the simplest and apparently the most logical explanation man could find. But recently he has found other explanations, equally inadequate, perhaps, but nevertheless explanations which he is able to believe more whole-heartedly...
...apartment by the grippe, contributed to the day a suitable apocalyptic utterance: " The seventh year after our revolution opens amid grim forebodings. In six days, says the old Bible story, the world was created and the seventh was a day of rest. After six years of bloodshed and superhuman effort to build up a new world, the seventh year lies before us. But it is not a year of rest. It is a year of great and passionate struggle, of unheard heroism and unprecedented sacrifice on the road to victory. As such we salute...
...received the acclaim of Science and of la patrie. He was the friend of many great men-John Stuart Mill, Hugo, Pasteur, Frédéric Mistral, Rostand, Maeterlinck (of whose The Life of the Bee he was the direct inspiration) -but to the end he retained his superhuman patience, humility, cheerfulness. The French Government purchased his harmas as a public museum and living laboratory, and a movement is on foot among his neighbors and admirers to erect a monument at Serignan in connection with his centenary, now being celebrated. Fabreana are now flowing liberally from the press. Other...
...shadow of its own goal-posts. Such at least was the general impression up to last Saturday. And perhaps it is too early to say definitely that Harvard found itself in the game against Tufts; there was nothing that roused the team or the stands to that wild, almost superhuman enthusiasm, of the kind, for example, displayed against Penn State in 1921. But there was a new power, there were occasional flashes of billiance particularly in the last period when Harvard kept bombarding the Tufts goal line, and there is new hope...