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Your doing so brought about a lengthy and weighty correspondence. Recently in a small circle of friends I referred to TIME and this related affair; and the consensus of opinion was that yours is an atheistic medium, pure and simple, sponsored by and for the purpose of promoting Atheism, hence your placing me - and others no doubt - in direct communication with these professed and confessed, so-called "Truth Seekers," thereby causing them to release a batch of atheistic literature. My friends agree that it is one method of distribution. I warmly defended TIME...
...York, the modern Babylon, at this time of year holds out a welcoming hand to such students as have survived the midyear examinations, which by a general consensus of opinion have been harder than ever before. Minds which have been wound up like a spring for the semi-annual ordeal feel that they are entitled to the lubrication of a week-end trip. Timetables of trains and steamers and criticisms of New York plays are much in demand...
According to this view, it is Quite to reasonable for the Democratic politicians to react so easily without reason to the bad taste left by their last convention. One gathers from the consensus of opinion gathered by the Times that the change will prevail and the next Democratic nominee will be the choice of only a majority of delegates to the convention...
Despatches from Peking were so meagre last week as to suggest that the armed forces now occupying that city (TIME, May 3) were exercising a ruthless censorship. The consensus of reports was that Dr. W. W. Yen had been set up at Peking as "Chief Executive"* of China," with Dr. Wellington Koo as his Premier and Foreign Minister. He was allegedly supported by the victorious armies of General Chang Hsueh-liang, field commander for his father, the great Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang...
...comment. They agreed for the most part that individual voices were "not what they used to be," that ensembles and mountings were better than ever before, that the eleven novelties and revivals, if not notably significant, had served their purpose of breaking the monotony of the standard repertoire. The consensus of opinion was that little had been accomplished for the cause of the U. S. singer by the widely heralded debuts of Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times: "Undoubtedly the most valuable addition to the ranks of the Metropolitan in the past...