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...undergraduate committee has withdrawn every possible question mark from the minds of students. Harvard's birthday celebration will be in the best tradition of birthday celebrations with the happy exception that both fun and sentiment are to be magnified a thousandfold. Tears will be shed and Bacchus will sneak from his vineclad retreat to mingle quietly and not so quietly with revellers disposed to entertain him. And justly so. Such an affair merits the profoundest dignity, the tenderest sentiment, along with the most care free jubilation that those concerned can muster...
Browne finds an interesting analogy to Christianity under the Roman Empire. "Like Communism in the twentieth century, the new religion was made the bugaboo and the scapegoat of the age. . . . There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author...
...yielded ... it would have injured the spiritual responses of the American people. It would have been a step on the pathway of Government doles. . . . We are dealing with the intangibles of life and ideals. ... A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the Treasury. . . . In all this there is the imponderable of spiritual ideal and spiritual growth. . . . You have renewed and invigorated the spiritual life of the nation...
...came back from their long honeymoon abroad Julie found she could face her former idol without batting an eye; more, that Husband Nick was the man for her. And just then, of course, it was discovered Julie was really the long-lost Barnes heiress: her virtue was rewarded a thousandfold...
...Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place, today stands on the campus. In other quarters, Parson Faunce has been more successful. Under his aegis, Brown buildings have increased an hundredfold, Brown endowments a thousandfold...