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...academic activities is unveiled in the statements accompanying Dean Pound's disapproval of engagement in such interests by students of the Law School, where membership in a single extra-curricular organization is found to impede scholastic work dangerously. The undergraduate, doubtless endowed with more leisure than his elder brethren, prefers to devote himself to Widener and his classes; the graduate, in an atmosphere already charged with academic responsibility, drops from grace through the endeavor to add a number not already on his crowded program...
...storm of censure had arisen on both sides of the party lines. The Republican New York Evening Post had said: "When she is permitted to make a stump speech . . . she strikes deeply at respect for impartiality of law." Methodists in other States had flayed their Ohio brethren for being swept off their feet...
That, of course, was a Ku Klux Klan demonstration as well as a Southern demonstration. Nevertheless, its sheer, insensate violence made people wonder how serious was the likelihood of many Southern Democrats splitting away from their Northern brethren over Nominee Smith this autumn...
Pious Mohammedans rightly abhor such of their brethren as are so hypocritical as to drink spirits with the alibi that they are not drinking wine. Similarly Queen Wilhelmina has her own pious opinion of people who indulge in sport on Sunday, the Lord God's appointed Day of Rest. Therefore Her Majesty has been put in a quandary by the famed Olympic Games, now being held in Amsterdam with a pagan disregard of Sunday...
...Chicago, dark faces with wide lips and narrow eyes were in evidence. The faces belonged to African Methodist Episcopalians. For a time, these solemn people emulated their white brethren in Kansas City; with commendable dignity as well as wisdom they voted to "amalgamate" with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, but decided to refer the matter to the people of their congregations for "ratification...