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When a group of undergraduates gathered last spring to discuss the practicality of an optional course in Christianity, considerable doubt was expressed as to the chances of interesting other students in the plan. It was carefully stressed that the course, if given, should not be made to depend on a large attendance, and that the lecturers should not feel neglected if they found themselves addresing a group of three of four conscientious listeners. Other promoters felt that the course should be highly informal, and should be held in one of the House Common Rooms, to lend an air of friendly...
...relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely on how strongly Messrs. Hoffman and Powell live up to their promises to support him in the regular election...
...which Vermont refused to do. Vermont's Aiken: "Shall the Federal Government have the authority to take from a State without its consent and with or without recompense the natural resources [reservoir and power sites] upon which the industry, the income and the welfare of the people may depend? ... If the water power of Vermont can be taken without its consent, then the same right would exist for appropriating any natural resource of any other State...
...ultimate future of the National Scholarship Plan's scope, few are so sanguine as to predict. Made possible largely by the generosity of those who contributed to the 300th Anniversary Fund, its spread must depend on such continued generosity
...eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped, in no case passed on the gene to children, grandchildren. So Dr. Potter concluded "There can be no doubt that the peculiar ears of this family depend upon a single dominant gene. . . . Our patient may expect to transmit ears which are abnormally formed to approximately one-half of her children. Her brothers and sisters who have similar ears will do likewise. Those who have normal ears will have children with normal ears and in succeeding generations...