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...injects shaving-parlor chords into a hymn, and Sweet Adeline harmonization, and dominant-seventh Amens, and too much tremolo. . . . I should not permit him to play dizzy chromatics, or anything else, during the Lessons and prayers. What is to be done? Tell him in the gentlest, but most priestly manner, that all these tricks of the jazz radio organist are utterly out of place in church, and annoy everybody but the man who is guilty of them. Tell him that the church service is a very serious matter, and neither the time nor place for such vulgarisms. "Despairing Pastor" could...
Acting upon the gentlest hints from undergraduates, and in full accord with the spirit of the House Plan, the tutors in Eliot House have doubtless decided by this time to give over the daily tutors table. To date, however, they have shown a commendable horror of backslapping and mere vulgar companionability, and a tendency to Fabian tactics in making their reform. Obviously haste would be most undesirable when dealing with so old a tradition as the tutorial table of Eliot House. There is a widespread feeling among the students, however, that it would be very nice if by Thanksgiving Dinner...
...accept the decision which seems impending at Geneva, he is unable to meet his colleagues at Stresa. The immediate point should be a provision for the statement of his claims to the victors of 1914, and if he must be forced to table, humanity decrees that Europe use the gentlest of methods with the nation he has deluded. POLLUX...
...domain of curative surgery. The art and genius of J. Marion Sims with the silver-wire suture made lacerated woman whole. The victim of vesicovaginal fistula was no longer a prisoner in her own house. She is rescued from her wretchedness by the most deli cate skill and the gentlest...
News: "Dorothy Pollak, the wistfully beautiful widow of poor Joe (I-Wish-I-Was-in-t he-Grave-with-Him) Pollak, wrapped in grief and shedding tears like pearls, took the stand to describe her musketry, the gentlest wife who ever shot a husband. . . . 'The State has not even established that a murder was committed,' said Lawyer O'Brien. And many thought he was about to argue that Mr. Pollak had been shot in the open season for Pollaks...