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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only been sensed like a rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While the rise apace of the new west was so much a matter...
...striking column headed "1925's Account with Liberalism," the current issue of the Nation lists near the top of the credit side of the ledger the overwhelming evidence that the youth of today intends to think for itself. At approximately the same time that the Nation's editorial was written, nine hundred students, representing twenty denominations and one hundred and seventy-six colleges in the United States and Canada, met together in an interdenominational conference at Evanston Illinois. The list of opinions expressed by the convention provides interesting confirmation of the Nation's conclusion that youth intends to think...
Further it appeared that all Rabbi Wise had been driving at was the expression of his enthusiasm for a book Jesus of Nazareth, written at Jerusalem and in Hebrew by a Dr. Joseph Klaussner, who set forth the Nazarene simply as a great Jew and not as the Christ...
...Krishnamurti is an old story. He has titillated sewing circles periodically since 1908, when sweet Mrs. Besant carried him from India off to her English home. He was 12 years old, reminiscent to Mrs. Besant of a Boy who talked to doctors in the Temple. He had written a book, At the Feet of the Master, and Mrs. Besant, just turned 60, was young to theosophy...
Gregory Mason, the organizer of this expedition, has made two previous trips of Yucatan and has written many magazine articles and a book on this region. In 1912 and 1913 he did newspaper work for the New York Evening Sun. He was outlook correspondent in the armies of Villa and Carranza in 1914 and two years later in the punitive expedition led by Pershing. Before the World War he undertook political and economic investigations in Yucatan, Mexico, Russia, Asia and the Far East. During the war he was outlook correspondent in the Argonne and Meuse campaigns and later...