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...archaic shibboleth which is kept mainly because of the requirements of state secondary school boards. The shibboleth may be continued for those who are able to study for only a year, or as a preliminary for those who wish to take the doctorate and lack the proper college background. It would be less of a joker if Harvard were to require a thesis as most other Institutions...
...battle is on. Smart politician that he is, Roosevelt could not keep the inflation issue from coming to the front. Since his inauguration it has hung ominously in the background. The inflationists have never been very quiet, and within recent weeks their meagre squeal has grown into a major howl. But only in the last week have any considerable "sound money" jitters become noticeable. First Barney Baruch, adviser extraordinary to the New Deal, pronounces his opposition, and then comes the electric shock of Professor Sprague's desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones...
...name, projects himself into the eighteenth century there to live over again the romance of ancestor Peter Standish and Helen Pettigrew. Complications are presented in prophetic remarks that so uncannily diagnose the future and which he so inopportunely drops along the way. Throughout, of course, there is a philosophical background which contends that eternity is one in the mind of God and that the past, present, and future ever exist there...
...before the ententes had been solidified and policy definitely formulated. The unrest in the Balkans is merely the reflection of this greater uncertainly in the West. The small nations southeast of Vienna consequently vacillate timidly between France and Italy with the shadow of Russia ominously towering in the background. Their own particular bones of contention, such as the Macedonian question, they have temporarily buried, while by adroit guesswork they try to pick the side which will come out on top in the next struggle for power. The star of France is in the ascendant now, but the eventual balance will...
...exhibition range in size from huge altars to small crucifixes. Vestments of the clergy, chalices, stained glass, mosaics, and other pieces which play a part in religious worship have all been gathered to depict the trend of modern Austro-Germanic church design. Models and photographs serve as a background...