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...taken seriously. In the past it was often considered a sport, and it was played for fun in a slapdash unprofessional manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology...
...proposed to admit deaconesses to the priesthood. In other words, women are to be given Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church. A most egregious blunder. In the first place, a deaconess is not in Holy Orders as a deacon is, and is not "ordained" to her office or function but is "set apart." In the Episcopal Church there are but three orders of Ministers-Bishops, Priests, Deacons-and these are confined to male persons who may be found qualified...
Bishop Murray will remove shortly to Manhattan, where he will function, ex officio, as President of the National Council. His salary was fixed at $15,000, although the Deputies wanted to make it $18,000, and he is allowed $5,000 for expenses...
...organization of your Committee itself is too well known to require explanation, but the system of its Graduate Advisory Committees was revised so recently (December, 1924) that a brief exposition of their position and their function may be advisable...
...really is a world gas forty seven billion times less dense than hydrogen, four thousand times smaller than hydrogen buibles. And its function is the connecting of all sorts of planets and prophets and worlds and worms. Faster than light, it has evaded the searchers of the past and has such evanescent qualities even now that Captain See sees it as a colossal a formidable Nothing...