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...With vigor in their bodies, fervor in their souls, aphorisms in their minds, a band of high-pressure Protestant missionaries last week began a three-month tour of 25 religiously significant U. S. communities. The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America advertised the undertaking as "the greatest united venture in religion on the part of Protestant churches of America in this generation." Starting with Albany, N. Y. last week, preaching teams of at least ten men and women will spend four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland...
...author of "So Proudly We Hail" doesn't like military academies and he says so with vigor and bitterness. Out of the raging violence of his indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national...
...remarkable visage of elderly vigor is the Stuart portrait of John Adams at the age of eighty, second president of the United State and Harvard 1775. This is one of the more important pictures that may be seen along with the Copleys of John Adams '87 and of that irrepressible discontent Sam Adams 1740, as well as the one of John Hancock lent by the City of Boston. Hancock was treasurer of the College from 1773-1779 while being engaged in the many patriotic duties for which he is better known. Other pictures are of Cotton and Increase Mather...
...refortification of Helgoland in violation of the Versailles Treaty and in direct menace to Britain? Is Germany coming to the next Locarno Conference to which are also invited Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium? As these questions emerged in debate, Captain Eden handled them with not much more vigor than the tailor's dummy some Europeans uncharitably consider him to be.* The rearming of Helgoland he glossed over as German "peccadillo," adding: "Individual matters of this kind, though they cannot be passed unobserved, should not be raised at the moment"-i. e., not until "Machiavelli-&-soda" has seen what...
...sovereign system of Professor Edith Lindsay of Oakland's Mills College is swimming. "Swimming," she declared last week, "tops all activities as to values in physical, social, psychological and recreational development. . . . Besides direct effect on muscles, swimming is a superior activity in strengthening the vital functions and organic vigor of the body. The massaging action of the abdominal muscles needed to keep the internal organs in a state of tonus is provided by the leg thrash, which is controlled by muscles originating on the pelvis. Circulation is speeded. The heart, more nearly on a level with all parts...