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Kiths & Climate. Out of the vast, miscellaneous welter of Huntington's ideas, a few will certainly live. One is the concept of "kiths," a main feature of his book. Huntington defined a kith as "a group of people relatively homogeneous in language and culture, and freely intermarrying with one another." He traced the careers of many influential kiths, including the Jews, the Puritan New Englanders, the Mongols, the Hakkas of South China...
Last Fall's ostentatious Constitutional Revision only culminated evolution in progress since the first Council of 1908. Two basic obstacles had long blocked a quick maturity: unrepresentative political composition of the Council and the time-honored concept of the level on which propriety permitted a collegiate aristocracy to function...
...telling commentary that this is something new. But in the past only council members themselves did the job: usually, in fact, some four or five scurried about with no apparent, concept of the colossal reservoir of untapped talent crying for discreet exploitation...
...Council study before the war pointed to the need for the General Education concept which was later evolved by the Faculty. "Limitation of the Tutorial System" in the spring of last year may well have saved tutorial from slow death...
...Negotiations. One of the knottiest ecclesiastical problems to be ironed out: the Anglican belief that the ministry must be in the line of "apostolic succession," as against the Congregationalist concept of the "ministry of all believers." This problem was eventually solved by the creation of a 30-year period, during which the Anglicans will recognize the existing ministries, of the other denominations (and agree to such un-Anglican nomenclature as moderator, presbyter and elder), with the understanding that no minister ordained before the union can be shifted to any church without the consent of the congregation. When the 30 years...