Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Browne's viewpoint is skeptical from the start; says he: "The stand taken by the present author is influenced by the most recent school of New Testament criticism . . . which maintains that the Gospels are valid sources only for the history of the Primitive Church, not for the life of Jesus." The Resurrection, the Ascension he calls "comforting delusions." Though he thinks St. Paul "superb nonetheless" he dubs him "a fanatic, a stubborn, heedless, Christ-drunk agitator." Browne deprecates the establishment of the priesthood, thinks it was "as ominous as it was inevitable. Created so to 'bank' the fire...
...finally been reached by the Harvard Athletic Association to retain the one hundred and fifty pound football team for another year, despite the vote of the Student Council to discontinue it, as a hindrance to the success of the House Football teams in their initial year. There are three valid reasons for the lightweight football team: it offers outside competition for a group of men physically unable to compete with an unlimited squad; Princeton will probably enter the field next year, making two opponents; and it is logical to continue a lightweight football team as well as the 150-pound...
...most interesting phenomena will be those who honestly disbelieve in the display for any one of many valid reasons. If they do not experience the cool tickle down their spines, it is because they have missed the sight. And one may readily sympathize with their hasty and shamefaced return to steadfast convictions once the last roar has vanished. Even a reformer is sometimes human...
...Tunis's most valid objections are those opposing definite policies. It is ridiculous to say that the present system of handling intercollegiate athletics is by any means perfect. But the need of older men to direct and decide problems beyond those of mere transportation of teams cannot be soundly disputed. Whether or not undergraduates are capable of such management is out of the question. If a group of students were able to devote all of their time to the work, they would soon become submerged in countless questions of every variety...
...practice session on the diamond yesterday was Coach Fred Mitchell's prescription for the faltering Harvard baseball nine which meets New Hampshire University today at 4 o'clock. In view of the Crimson's 9-7 defeat by Colby on Tuesday, the Granite State aggregation must be considered a valid threat...