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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open its columns to one writer who wishes to justify divorce, and to another who desires to express his conception of God, is to play the dogmatist. It is obviously the purpose of a magazine to stimulate a discussion of ideas in an attempt to sift out the truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MONKEY-MEN--" | 11/25/1924 | See Source »

However undesirable Dr. Straton's attitude may appear, it but represents the Fundamentalist outlook upon life--carried to an absurd extreme. Once the Bible is accepted as the ultimate and sole source of absolute truth, this acceptance colors one's view of the whole universe. Evolution becomes an impossible theory, questions of monogamy are labelled as sinful, and speculations upon the nature of God are condemned as the direst sort of heresy. While the Bible will always play an important part in the life of mankind, when it is invoked to check suggestions of improvements in the social order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MONKEY-MEN--" | 11/25/1924 | See Source »

...been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley-Sugar Effigy" of legend. With nicely considered moderation, Mr. Steuart aims at the truth behind the haze of contradiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critical Inspection of a Myth | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...Auckland did not mince matters. He had come to tell the Nation the plain, unvarnished truth. He had come to deliver a much-needed punch and characteristically he hit with all the force of his intellect. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Punches with Kicks | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...make any provision for indoor golf facilities until the sport can be played by all the students." Such was the reply made yesterday by Major F. W. Moore '92, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., when asked by a CRIMSON reporter if there was any truth in the rumor that the H. A. A. plans to place a driving net in the Hemenway Gymnasium, and supply instructors to teach all men free of charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY GOLF LINKS UNLIKELY, SAYS MOORE | 11/18/1924 | See Source »

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