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...examinations admitting him to the ultimate institution? And even then, how shall he know whether it be because of his college career, or in spite of it? We cannot help feeling, as time goes on, that the influence and the significance of college are beginning to slip a bit. Things are too ill-defined...
...cheval!" the French maitre d'hotel has confessed privately, "a bit of horseflesh for a people who will eat any meat providing it is 'corned.' . . . C'est leur propre fourrage...
...activities of the U. S. public utilities-the "Power Trust"-private interests opposing the Government's entry to the electricity industry. So widespread, so penetrating, so energetic, so determined, so covert has been the propaganda of these interests that, as it is exposed bit by bit by the Federal Trade Commission's current investigation, the issue between California and Arizona has been twisted from its cultural base...
...Johannesburg and Cape Town, riots by native blacks accompanied the unfurling of the new flag. Misguided agents of the extreme pro-British faction, who wish to continue under the "Union Jack," had still further misguided the Afric blacks into believing the absurd bit of blather that the new flag would mean their enslavement. Fired by this preposterous notion, the natives massed and howled protests against what they called the "coffin flag." Shouting "Away with Slavery!" they tore down the new banner in numerous instances. Meanwhile 100% British Islanders drove through Johannesburg and Cape Town, waving the Union Jack and shouting...
Protestants, however, soon cut the Apocrypha out of their Bibles, retaining only one little bit, the "Song of the Three Children," in the prayer book of sects which have prayer books. Recently, a U. S. court admitted tax-free a cargo of Douai Bibles. These, however, included the Apocryphal book which Mr. MacVeagh had imported separately. The court's ruling made it clear that for legal purposes the Apocrypha is part of the Bible only when it is bound with the other universally recognized books...