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...According to this doctrine of happiness," he went on last night, "every man has the right to be happy, and so if he is unhappy he is entitled to complain of a wrong and the guilty individual who has taken his share. It is radically false, and did not exist in the older philosophies. The doctrine began in England two and a half centuries ago during the reign of Charles the Second, a period when other unwholesome things crept into the world. The word 'happiness' does not occur a single time in the authorized version of the Bible. 'Happy' does...
...improper parallels. At least one Catholic set treats of all manner of things, ecclesiastical, historical, scientific and otherwise, and treats of them all from a Catholic point of view. The plan of Judge Rogers' encyclopedia would seem to limit it to those subjects on which there should properly exist both a Protestant and a Catholic point of view. "Protestants will continue to trust secular encyclopedias for their knowledge of secular affairs," said one commentator...
...would have voted with the Democrats against the change. The other, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, Republican, was classified as "uncertain." In their double absence, however, the thing was done. Of course, the decision is far from final- on the floor of the Senate much the same situation will exist-a combination of insurgent Republicans with Democrats, which may result in the surtax being raised again...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, after an investigation "does not hesitate to express the opinion that the so-called Benjamin Franklin Fund does not exist and that the alleged major award to Banning is as big a hoax as the resurrection stunt at the Albany County Hospital." The latter allusion refers to a former incident in which Banning was involved. During the summer of 1923 newspaper editors received four typewritten pages, legal size, purporting to come from the Albany Chamber of Commerce. It dealt with the "most remarkable case in modern medical science" that had recently happened...
...only large University where there are no restrictions governing Freshmen. Where the majority of institutions consider the institution of Freshman customs an important method in acquainting first-year men with college traditions, it is noticeable that in Harvard, a university seeped with tradition, Freshman regulations do not exist...