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Questioned as to the present religious situation in Russia, the speaker said that a person professing religion of any sort is ineligible for the Communst party. "However," he went on, "the churches hold well attended services and it was my impression that many Communists go to church on the quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYS IS FIRST TO ADDRESS LIBERALS | 9/30/1926 | See Source »

Patriotic pessimism is a rare attitude. Even in the most discouraging narrative of national failure, one almost always finds a hopeful note. Apparently, the philosophical fallacy that progress is inevitable has made a deep impression on the minds of men. The latest pronunciamento of Dean Ralph Inge, the "gloomy Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRACTICAL PESSIMIST | 9/28/1926 | See Source »

On some morning of this week, students sleeping in the Yard will bound from their beds under the impression that bedlam and inferno have broken loose; for the 4500 pounds of metal in the new bell in Harvard Hall will be catapulting wildly from side to side of the reinforced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Turn Deaf Ear" Becomes Impossibility as 4500-Pound Tocsin in Harvard Hall Blasts Cloistered Calm of Yard | 9/28/1926 | See Source »

How does honor come to a man? What is the evidence of the honorable life? What is the tribunal which declares at last: "This is an honorable man"? You look now for the favorable judgment of your elders, --of parents and teachers and older students; but these elders will not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOLID SATISFACTIONS OF LIFE | 9/23/1926 | See Source »

Thus with pious invocation Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera formally proclaimed last week that a plebiscite would at once be held throughout Spain to determine whether the people desire to elect a Cortes* (Parliament) or to continue under the De Rivera dictature. Despatches gave the impression that the whole machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Plebiscite, Mutiny | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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