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...Obviously the details of Prayer Book Revision thus to be presented to the Convention in October vary in importance. But through them all runs a commanding principle. This principle is reality. We are trying to avoid vain repetitions, the use of archiac words or phrases which, to the ordinary layman, mean either nothing or something untrue, and such length of prayer or praise in any one part of any service that the mind becomes numb and the worship ' of the heart ceases...
...cannot help feeling also that much injustice is done Dr. Sheffer in the criticism of Philosophy 1. If there is anything he tries to avoid in this course it is the "parrcting a number of logical rules-of-thumb" for which you so harshly condemn him. If any one doubts this let him compare the texts used in Philosophy 1 with the treatises on "formal logic" used in most college courses in logic. Let him also read some of the final examinations which Dr. Sheffer has set in his course in which no rules of logic, no technical knowledge...
...Congress, Mr. Cooke advocated that the Trade Unionists invest their General Council with power to call a strike of 5,000,000 British Unionists at the drop of a battered derby. "Be realists! . . . It's only power that counts, and if we show our power we'll avoid strikes...
GREENERY STREET-Denis Mackail -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). To make a novel out of commonplace incidents in the first year of a pair of young English newlyweds, and avoid being "wet,"* is something of an achievement. Author MacKail has done it, with a very nice mixture of mock solemnity and featherweight irony. That is all there is to Greenery Street-two charming children, Ian and Felicity, finding their love-nest, scrimmaging with bills, terrified of their servants, diffidently "philosophizing." A very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another...
...appear again that night, the distinguished old gentleman would depart, hoping the next night to avoid a boring banquet, to return to the theatre early, having a seat...