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...been shown by careful experiment that poetry, the multiplication table, and the telegraphic code can be taught in a shorter time when the student was in hypnotic sleep. This is a great lead to those who want to know How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. I believe that the dear Mr. Nolan, a very shrewd man, would use the idea if he were alive today. Backward students could be lulled to knowledge while they reclined peacefully on their Davenports after a night of ribald revelry. Or the good Widow might have made Trilbys of them and sent them...
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...call your attention to the fact that when your department of RELIGION, TIME, Feb. 28, p. 22, explains the assertion that Christianity is "primarily a way of life" by the inserted note, "i. e. a moral code," it is far from doing justice to the persons quoted. They might without hesitation appeal to the New Testament itself, for when Jesus said, "I am the way . . no one cometh unto the Father but by me," He surely did not mean that He was a moral code. When Paul wrote, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth...
Last week these commissions published, from Boston, their joint recommendations: "We believe the basis of vital Christian unity is a common acceptance of Christianity as primarily a way of life [i. e., a moral code]. Assent to an official creed is not essential. Within the circle of fellowship created by loyalty to the common Master there may exist differences of theological opinion. With that primary loyalty affirmed, such differences need not separate; rather, indeed, if the mind of the Master controls, they may enrich the content of faith and experience...
...That the Triple Agreement (the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Agreement of 1916, together with all revisions now incorporated in it) shall continue as the code governing the joint athletic relations and contests between Harvard and Yale, but Section 3 of Article VI of the agreement of January 1, 1923 shall read: "No post-season contests or contests for the purpose of setting sectional or other championships shall be permitted...