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...become somewhat of a convention among professors who are apostles of the older order in education to adopt an attitude of well-bred superiority whenever mention is made of introducing vocational subjects into college curricula. Consequently it is refreshing to hear a new voice crying in the wilderness. Professor Edman of Columbia in the October "Century" maintains that the citadel from which the cultured professors sneer at their more practical-minded brethren is itself far from impregnable. He charges that these scholars are lecturing as if their classes were all composed of independently wealthy youths being fitted for sinecure positions...
...Roman Catholic Church. To this Canon Barnes is greatly opposed. Said he: "A reasonable system of faith and thought cannot be derived from the theories peculiar to Anglo-Catholicism. The earnestness and zeal of Anglo-Catholics only make the more pathetic the fact that their system is a hybrid, bred by fear in the Victorian era.* Its founders were afraid of liberal theology. ... In Latin Catholicism, the ancestral sacramental paganism of the Mediterranean races is veneered by Christian sentiment. To attempt to graft it on the English church is hopeless...
KEEPING THE PEACE ? Gouverneur Morris ? Scribners ($2.00). Edward Eaton's maternal parent was known in her family as "dear Mother." She was a sweet, soft and pious woman, whose sweetness drove one son to follow the sea, whose softness bred moral degeneracy in another, whose piety did its best to force Edward, an artist of sorts, into the clergy. This jauntily unpleasant book is an attack upon a type of woman to which the term Victorian has often been applied, always inaccurately, since lust, ignorance and bigotry are not the peculiar property of any particular period...
...that hydra-headed monster raise its head among us, redblooded, fighting Americans, born and bred descendants of Colonial and Revolutionary pioneer ancestors. There is no pacifism in our patriotic hearts...
Agriculture. "I confess that my inheritance and personal experience have bred in me a keen interest in the welfare of agriculture. ... As many as 15 laws have been passed to assist and support this fundamental industry. Through the War Finance Corporation it has been extended credits of between...