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...Bishop Brent said every clergyman had time to help the unmarried mother. ¶ Canon Gabriel Farrel lamented the bold manners of unchaperoneu girls. ¶ Bishop Brent proposed that his own salary be cut if necessary, so that the Province could raise its quota for missionary work: "A diocese cannot afford to pay a large salary to its Bishop and then fail to meet its missionary quota." This was the synod's great moment...
Apparently this is a game which no statesman can afford to neglect; its influence on the destinies of man deserves more profound contemplation than our comic section artists have been wont to give, and few others have thought of it philosophically at all. Its devastating effect on family life has become traditional enough to make "golf widow" a picturesque term, and of course, it is well-known that professional men, especially doctors, commonly abandon their patients or clients for the links...
Commenting to a CRIMSON reporter on the scholarship, Mr. J. T. Wheelwright '76, a member of the original Lampoon Board, said, "It isn't a scholarship: it's a prize to make the standard of the paper increase. 'Life' cannot afford to run itself on contributions pushed in under the door, and neither can Lampy...
...because the unions in those industries are not strong enough to enforce any other condition. Shop committees are unsatisfactory in that they rarely produce capable leaders and cannot make agreements which will extend over a wide field. And Mr. Bullard's arguments for the buttress which public opinion would afford Labor if the latter would accept the open shop are inconclusive. In fact he mentions at the close of his article the great difficulty of arousing public opinion...
...equipped with a new jaw and eyebrows. A baby with a withered ear was given a good one. Hundreds of applicants, who want their faces reconstructed because of deformities which militate against employment or marriage, have had to be turned away. Formerly, except in armies, only the rich could afford facial surgery, but the St. Andrew's Clinic will extend its services to persons of moderate means. It will be run on a no-profit basis and will give post-graduate courses to surgeons from all over the world. To guard against commercialization, such students must meet the surgical...