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...Roman Catholic, he and his family were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having been formerly members of the Congregational Church in Augusta, Me., and entering the Episcopal Church just before or a few years after the Chief Justice was born. I think he saw the error of his ways as to Copperheadism, and would not thank you for classing him as a Confeder ate, and would certainly angrily repudiate being classed as a Roman Catholic. I hope you will make the needed correction. HAROLD GOODWIN P. S. - I was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court...
Christ never guaranteed that His Church would be free of scandals: but He did guarantee that it would not teach error. There were grave scandals in the Church in the time of Christ. Judas was a thief, as well as a traitor and a suicide. Peter was a perjurer, James and John Quarreled, and so did Peter and Paul. All Catholics readily admit the Catholic Church needed housecleaning in the 16th century, but the Reformers set about, not to clean the house, but to dynamite it. If a child, has a dirty face you do not kill it: you wash...
...that it was a distinct credit to his prognosticating record. He analyzed with absolute accuracy the scoring power of Brown, Chicago, Boston College and Williams, and although he was forced to bear up under ridicule on Saturday for his guess on the Colgate-Princeton game, he considers that his error of only one point in the final score was a veritable achievement...
...Yale-Brown game is worrying me. I missed last week rating the Blue too high, but I am going to risk the same error again, partly swayed perhaps by the fact that it was at Yale that I prepared for college. I am going to pick Yale to win 13 to 7, but at the same time quietly advise my friends to bet only their easily-spared small change...
...kicking game for three quarters, the Freshmen opened up toward the end of the final period and by a succession of wide sweeps and off-tackle thrusts carried the ball to the School boys' nine yard line, where they were held for downs. At this point an error in judgement on the part of the Crimson backs lost them a possible opportunity to score via the field goal route. On the third down, with the ball in play at one side of the field, the Freshman elected to try a wide end run to gain a position for an attempt...