Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...avert accusations of heresy or originality permit me to add that my source-book is a very conservative and churchmanly volume, to wit, the well-known Bible--which attributes to divine command "so crassly materialistic" our exercise of the state's police power as the institution of the Sabbath and "so brazenly political" a measure as the repropriation of citizen farmers every half century. And as to the separation of powers between Caesar and God, I have the authority of some eminent residents of Divinity Hall for no longer taking that injunction literally...
...LeBaron Russell Briggs--In Harvard's service from his youth up, dean of the college, president of Radcliffe, serene of temper and of a high spirit, distinguished in administration, his writings full of wit and sense, Dean Briggs has been a power for righteousness in many college generations. A friend of Yale and a friend of all the world...
Knowing that addition of advice makes for subtraction of wit, in spite of the strong yearnings of the counsellor, we shall refrain from making the usual comments, surpassing the usual exhortations, or triplicating the usual golden prophecies...
...national diet offers abundant opportunity for the one-column a day wit of newspaper paragraphs. But we feel quite serious about it. The new menu sounds interesting, and would perhaps taste even more so. Most of us, however, prefer to stick to the plain, old-fashioned tenderloin steak...
...Yesner " Co. E J. Cimerblatt, " Co. E C. L. Boyer 2d Provisional Co. Co. E J. W. H. Cummins " Co. E A. B. Hart, Jr. " Co. E A. P. Hart " Co. E K. L. Maclachian, " Co. E R. A. Perry " Co. E A. E. Phoutrides " Co. E M. Wit " Co. E J. B. Read, Jr. 3d Provisional Co. Co. E F. Norton " Co. E C. S. Gaynor " Co. E H. W. Bridge " Co. E P. J. Ginsburg " Co. E C. H. Holladay " Co. E Lackey...