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This was a new version. I remembered that John Eliot had translated the Bible and the catechism into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for the Advancement of Learning" for fear that otherwise the true doctrines might disappear from the American soil when he and hiis fellow-ministers should lie in the dust...
Signs of any such rearrangement were particularly scarce in India last week, both the vernacular and English language Press fulminating in the vein of New Delhi's Statesman: "The proposals are already dead. The Negus and the whole world will not have them. Sir Samuel Hoare has done irreparable damage to the Baldwin Government and to the moral leadership of Britain." No doubt Editor Garvin thought he was seeing eye-to-eye with King George when he added in the Sunday Observer: "Further sanctions intended to throttle Italy would set fire to the world. . . . The air would rain terrors...
...dared to halt the Khan, his wife was understood to have taken a crack at Elkton Town Officer Jacob Biddle. Iranians boiled with indignation at reports that the native Biddle not only failed to recognize the diplomatic status and immunity of His Excellency but exclaimed in the Maryland vernacular, "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher!" Then, actually grappling with the Great Khan, Biddle snapped the degrading shackles of a criminal on his wrists. What would President Roosevelt do, Iranians asked each other, if a similar outrage were perpetrated by Iranian police upon U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister...
...become pro-Japanese in all externals and last week, by Nanking's appointment, he was the new Commander of the Peiping-Tientsin Chinese Garrisons. Smirked a high Japanese official: "We in-tend to keep offering General Sung every inducement to remain friendly." In Shanghai last week the vernacular China Times likened the Italo-Ethiopian conflict to the World War, which Japan made the occasion for imposing upon China the notorious Twenty-One Demands. Warning its Chinese readers to expect redoubled harshness from Japan this time, the China Times declared in painful ideographs, "China is like a piece of pork...
...first successful attempts to establish primarily theological seminaries in Colonial New England and Virginia, with their earliest, long vanished halls and their varying versions of the Georgian vernacular" of the 18th century...