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...John Harvard, who was expelled from the monastery, for his peculiar religious views and founded in England a community called Emmanuel College, where thought was intended to be free. He still retained some affection for his native place in spite of its rigorous discipline, for the little colony which grew up around him assumed the name of Cambridge. This incident also confirms the growing suspicion of the old dictum that American decadence was due to religious toleration, for this habit does not seem to have been widespread at this or at any other period of their history...
However, outside the older societies, a religious revival grew up spontaneously in the local centres of life and became universal with remarkable rapidity. It even penetrates the commercial organizations of the country so thoroughly indeed that the travelling "agents provocateurs" of the various merchant guilds revived the Rule of the Mendicant Friars in all save one respect, while the guild Chambers of each district devoted a large part of their interests and revenues to philanthropic activities. The old inns were transformed into Churches of Community Service and richly endowed, so that their previous functions became almost incidental. Wayside shrines, often...
...jest wild stuff. It's a kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill, Dorinda wore a flame-colored shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp...
...associate Prof. W. K. Gregory-about the submarine scene they had been observing. Also last week, inhabitants of the human world attending" a tea-party at the New York Zoological Park (the Bronx) beheld two creatures new and strange-two fabulous white-breasted birds, from whose relatively small bodies grew sweeping scythes of wings seven inches in width, eight feet in spread. They were Galapagos albatrosses sent-together with marine iguanas-by Explorer Beebe to the New York Zoological Society...
...Florida, similar laws pending in West Virginia and Georgia, narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others. So "Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth size. Last week, Dayton was intoxicated with "boom" elixir like a small town expecting titular pugilism. College presidents wired for reserved seats in the courthouse auditorium. Eminent lawyers were coming for the defense-suave Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, cynical Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Perhaps England...