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...Appleton Chapel is following Memorial Hall into desuetude, modern educators have sought vainly after the cause and cure of growing religious antipathy among undergraduates. In the fervid scramble after mental and physical achievement, the college has gone blind to things spiritual. With this in mind, the CRIMSON has delved deep until now the "cause causinge," the taproot of the evil lies exposed. By thorough investigation it has been ascertained that the cushions in the chapel pews, unduly hard and cold in the early morning, have enforced many absences. In fact, students of poor physique must needs forego the privilege...
...When we lift our hands for the pledge and solemnly repeat: "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," can any one-hundred per-cent citizen fail to grasp the deep meaning, the patriotic tenderness, the passion and spirit of his own native land? Do we outrun ourselves in thus eulogizing the United States of America? No. The United States of America is a great and glorious institution and is undoubtedly a success...
...bosom. To be specific. Did the Flag, the Stars and Stripes of the American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep sincerity which should have had the flag out and flying at least a week before and a week after the date, February 22. If loyalty really were in the hearts of Harvard men they would have walked bare-headed through the yard with the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Criticisms such as these challenge the value of usages well grounded on tradition and custom in many of our schools. But if any progress is to be made in improving the present system, it must be by the elimination of just such deep-set evils. President Lowell has rendered valuable service to the cause of American education by his penetrating attack on them...
...lenses; the first a powerful magnifying glass, the second the iris of a perspicacious inward eye, whose function was to give clarity a significance beyond the decorative. In the way a purple petunia spread its violent petals, there was a hint, a symbol for truths not necessarily too deep for words to reach but outside the meanings from which words have been derived. It is enough to say that Miss O'Keeffe's paintings are as full of passion as the verses of Solomon's Song...