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Protestantism is "running downhill" (TIME, May 11). Well informed as he is, the new Congregational moderator was doubtless aware last week that in the July Christian Herald would appear the annual church statistics prepared by Dr. George Linn Kieffer; that these show an increase for all U. S. religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away...
...University was doubtless flattered with having been called one of the best State universities in the country, but equally doubtless chagrined with having been called the richest...
...interrupted by the muffled noises of guards beating someone; there are no more taps. With no explanation, Kassner is suddenly released, after what seemed a lifetime but turns out to have been only nine days. He gathers that some nameless comrade has given himself up as Kassner, has doubtless already been beaten to death or shot. Given 48 hours to leave Germany, Kassner has one chance of getting safely away: a rickety plane piloted by a fellow-Communist. Though the weather is so stormy that all passenger planes are grounded, they take off. beat through a blinding storm to Prague...
...Doubtless the most original trait of American cinema is the sly metamorphosis of familiar novels from their printed pages to the screen. Many who would be frightened away by its true-story title will be relieved to know that "I Married a Doctor" is a neat scenarioizing of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." Stylized, the plot is of a young woman rich in parts who comes to be the wife of Dr. Kennicott, and must breast all the bigotry of Williamsburg, a mid-western town. She is unfortunate in her open treatment of the men, secures the whole hearted...
...become quite obvious that in the majority of cases tutorial work is becoming stagmant. Yet, at the same time, students are compelled to take only three courses and pay the $100 course fee for this fruitless service. Doubtless it would be manifestly unfair to abolish the system while there are still some men who do derive benefits from tutorial and desire its continuance. But since there are so many concentrators who would prefer to take a fourth course in place of tutorial, students should at least be allowed to choose whichever plan they prefer. This reform, the only one necessary...