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...some assistance from the tide helped the Yale boat on its four mile row, and the futility of comparisons is realized here more than ever by the varying conditions which greet each new time trial. A faster performance by Captain Wilson's crew today was expected, but an accurate judgment on the relative speed of the Crimson and Blue crews on the basis of time trials to date is absolutely meaningless...
There had been one crises at the Assembly. It came when the Judicial Committee handed down judgment that the Presbytery of New York had erred in licensing two young men who had expressed doubt as to whether Jesus had been physiologically born of a virgin. Dr. Coffin, "pale and trembling with excitement," had promptly risen in the name of the New York Presbytery, to protest against the decision. This action resulted in postponement of the issue until a special committee of 15 should have made its investigation of the spiritual condition of the Church...
...history that Johnson, who never hesitated to venture the last word upon his literary predecessors and contemporaries, has had to submit to many attempts to weigh, catalogue, and pigeon-hole him by successors, many of whom have been eminently less qualified than he was to apply the formulae of judgment. One of the London debaters, for example, contended that since nobody nowadays reads Johnson's original works, and everybody who makes claim to learning reads Boswell, it follows that Boswell made Johnson...
...general survey should convince any intelligent person, apart from the judgment of experts, that these buildings could never have been a late copy made in the twentieth-century manner of servile imitation, for they reveal a mixture of styles and experiments which show a genuine creative spirit despite an obvious lack of technical knowledge...
...CRIMSON has, in my judgment been guilty of bad taste in its editorial of the 20th entitled, "Executive Persecution," in which the Department of Justice was made the object of attack. To anyone who is familiar with the facts in the case, there can be only two explanations of the attitude taken by the writer; either gross ignorance of the facts involved, or partisan motivation. I cannot believe the writer has been naive enough to show partisanship in an attack on partisanship; and, as I prefer to be charitable, I must assume the former alternative. To anyone who has followed...