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...hands of 7,700 subscribers last week, of whom more than 4,000 bought their subscriptions from Crusader Katterfeld in personal interviews. In five years he canvassed libraries, universities and schools in 45 States and in Canada, estimates that he traveled 42,000 miles by bus, train and trolley, 12,000 miles on foot, made sales talks to 20,000 persons. He found that most universities offer some instruction in evolution, but that many present it as an unsubstantiated theory and many more avoid the term "evolution" entirely. Baylor University in Texas does not teach it at all. Mr. Katterfeld...
From robust Winnipeg (Cree Indian win, murky; nipiy, water) last week came the robust report of an accident to a trolley of Winnipeg Electric...
Everybody who watched the track team edge the Crimson or the nine upset Dartmouth poured out to Derby as the afternoon progressed. By trolley, train, or horse and buggy, dressed in bathing suits or top hats, most of the crowd went not to witness the races but just to be a part of the crowd, and forget all about President Dodd's admonition about over-indulgence...
...born roses growing in the crevices of a Doric temple two thousand year old . . . . In Florence: A young Monk, holding gown above his knees, running to catch a crowded trolley car . . . A well-dressed woman from New York, puffing a cigarette in a corner of her mouth, pin a red rose on a shabby beggar who was blind . . . . A thousand black birds break their journey through the sky and stop at a marble ruin lit with moonlight . . . . Mussolini, the Pope and George Santayana...
Providing a fitting climax for a day with never a dull moment, a trainlet of three trolley cars hitched together was derailed by a split switch in the center of the Square at about five o'clock last night. A crowd of interested students, eager to help the baffled surface car operators, soon gathered and was augmented by rush-hour hordes emerging from the nearby subway entrance...