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...dispensing blessings upon his genuflecting worshipers. Said Cardinal Hayes in delivering the sermon: ". . . . This magnificent edifice ... is in very truth 'a structural Te Deum.' ... In the early centuries it was through the preaching of 'Jesus Christ and Him crucified' that the church drew under His yoke the legal-minded Roman, the philosophic Greek and the untamed barbarian, teaching them to bend the knee at the sacred name of Jesus." Dusk saw the centuries-old ritual terminated by the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament...
...Certainly, to an outsider, the Harvard Lampoon is more that a humorous magazine," says the article, "it is an individuality. If it is a solemn undertaking to become a Harvard undergraduate, the Lampoon eases the yoke; if the Harvard undergraduate gets too serious, the Lampoon holds up a mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average editorial. The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely...
...many other Harvard men, that it had long since become the American institution that it is. For certainly, to an outsider, the Lampoon is more than an undergraduate humorous paper: It has an individuality. If it is a solemn undertaking to became a Harvard undergraduate, the Lampoon cases the yoke; if the Harvard undergraduate gets too serious, the Lampoon holds up the mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods...
...ante) by refusing to accept the League's adjudication of the Mosul border, and demanding that a plebiscite be taken, and the whole matter reopened. 2) China: Chao Hsin-Chu, Chinese Charge d'Affaires at London, begged the League to deliver his country from "the yoke of extra-territoriality." 3) Autria: a protest was entered against the Austrian budget, as set by the League, it being claimed that State employes would be paid less than starvation wages under the present arrangement...
...have a more than even chance of partial success. Nevertheless, most people now . . . sincerely wish that they had not talked so much about the blessings of hurrying back to par. It is in this chastened mood that the British public will submit their necks once more to the golden yoke-as a prelude, perhaps, to throwing it off forever at not a distant date...