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When an international social-religious corporation accumulates some $318,000,000 worth of property, extends its ministrations throughout 56 lands, gains 1,600,000 members, its structure may well become as complex as that of any Big Business. So may its executives tend to be dynamic, important personages-in contrast to the London draper who founded the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844. Nothing demonstrates the Y. M. C. A.'s world position today more than the calibre of Dr. John Raleigh Mott, identified with it ever since he became a student secretary in 1888 when...
...nation steeped in depression becomes introspective. Some of the evils which brought on the collapse are now becoming apparent to the more thoughtful. For ten years after the war America had been living without any standards behind which her complex civilization might seek refuge. The moral, economic, and social fabric of the country was shot through with shoddy. There were no foundations, no guiding principles, no goals to direct the forces which men had set at work. There was only a vast and orunte superstructure builded upon a pediment of strawless brick...
...Englanders. It constituted a further, semi-final step in an Anglican-Orthodox rapprochement begun many years ago,* given impetus after the War and pushed on towards a finish at the Lambeth Conference of 1930. The object of bringing the Anglican and Orthodox faiths together again is nothing more complex practically, nor less majestic theologically, than to achieve that Unity towards which all sects are working. The Pope wants Unity, too, but expects all the sects to "return" to his fold on Rome's terms. The method by which Anglican-Orthodox unity and intercommunion have been sought...
...Greek letter society, and its expansion to a number of colleges, did, indeed, give to it a higher reputation than that of its fellows; but in its organization, purpose, and activities it resembled them. Thus at Harvard, the fortnightly meetings (until 1819) with their sociability and their discussions; the complex forms and ceremonies of initiation, taken over from the William and Mary chapter; the secrecy in which the meetings and laws were clothed, the use of cipher in official communications; all these are typical of the fraternities of the time. The ritual of initiation was pompous: in referring to meetings...
...than a gesture. In the incomplete form in which it was given out it is entirely unconvincing and lacks many important details which Harvard undergraduates and graduates have a right to know. In the main, only meaningless aggregate figures are listed, figures which do not begin to explain the complex financial system of the University...