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...forces, a battle of the ins against the cuts, with leaders and strategy and campaign chests and all the other paraphernilia of civil war, but without bodily violence to the warriors. This refinement of the struggle for political control, this transition from bullets to ballots is perhaps the greatest contributor of modern times to the progress of civilization...
...Shillito is religion's outstanding British journalist, the U. S. Christian Century's English correspondent, a regular contributor to the London Times. None knew better than he how busy the "international road," the press, is kept by the pagan deities in question. None knew better how Venus, having maddened or blessed some hot Italian poet, some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with...
...Harvard Fund Council confidently hopes that men who have, for one reason or another, been prevented thus far from subscribing to the Fund, will realize the importance of giving something now. "Enclosed you will find my check for $25 subscription to the Harvard Fund", writes one contributor. "It is a great idea. 100 per cent, represented rather than a large amount of money...
...Citizen of Massachusetts and bearing one of its most honored and distinguished games graduated from Harvard University with the class of 1878; life-long student and teacher of history, and noteworthy contributor to historical literature, how carrying to completion the most satisfactory, the best balanced and most complete history of the United States member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, gladly admit you to the degree of doctor of letters in this university...
Letters to the Harvard Fund Council, which have, in many cases, accompanied contributions, indicate a gratifying approval of the plan of the fund. A case in which distance has lent, perhaps something besides enchantment, is that of a distinguished Siamese contributor, whose letter is also quoted on another page. If the Fund's appeal can effectively reach a man so far removed from the life and flavor of Cambridge, it will not be lost on those who are geographically closer...