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Undoubtedly in many of these cases the Deans will hand back the reports with a smile, and proceed to settle the questions in hand just as if there were no such thing as Student Advisors. By the same token, many of the Advisors themselves will have had to report on Freshmen whom they have seen only once, whom they have found uncommunicative, whom they know exceedingly little about. These reports will of course be of little practical value...
...Sixty plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him." (TIME...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
...Ferrara, third husband of Lucrezia Borgia, bargaining after the mysterious, Machiavellian manner of those times, for possession of two great cities with many thousand souls in fealty bound, ordered a painting of himself to be made and sent to His Holy and Imperial Majesty Charles V, as a token of goodwill that might facilitate the transfer of property. Titian made the picture about 1525, since when it has remained forever fair, though the cities and the man for whose sake it was created have long ago filtered into the earth. For centuries, it was believed lost. An art dealer...
...taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third to her twelfth year (according to the same source) Mary dwelt in the temple; when she became of nubile age, Joseph was chosen from the widowers of Israel by divine token, to be her guardian. Later, the annunciation took place; when Mary's pregnancy was discovered, she and Joseph were brought before the High Priest protesting their innocence of earthly wrong. They were tried with "the water of the ordeal of the Lord," were acquitted. In Catholic dogma, Mary remained...