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...those who are economically minded, a still greater benefit accrues to a House because of the residence therein of graduates. Most of these men occupy higher priced rooms, and thus enable the House to dispose of some of those suites which would otherwise remain vacant, for the fact that a man can afford to continue his studies is usually indicative of his being able to pay well for his accommodations. It is doubtful whether the larger Freshman class would be able to use the higher priced rooms...
Readers of The World of William Clissold and Science of Life resent as presumptuous the judgment that, literary skill therein displayed is second-class...
Pastor Keiding had a fine new church. But the people of Valby continued to ignore it, to patronize the Gammel Oestengaard, an alehouse across the way. Pastor Keiding bought the Gammel Oestengaard, improved its atmosphere, preached his gospel therein. Pleased, Pastor Keiding uttered a heady aphorism: "It is better to sit in a saloon and think about the church than to sit in a church and think about the saloon...
Enlarging upon the similarity between the contentions of Blackstone and Mrs. Eddy, Judge Hill said, "Their statements and logic agree in substance and in fact. They agree that the basis of law is divine, and that divine law is revealed through the Scriptures and must be discovered therein; and they are in exact accord with the fact that divine law is sufficient under all circumstances to meet the needs of mankind...
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...