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Most Protestant Churches collect many millions for what is called Home Missions. These are Christian enterprises which can be conducted better by a national organization than by local churches (as, for example, care of immigrants, Indians, "poor whites"). Part of the work is assistance of small parishes which cannot provide for their own spiritual nutriment...
...throughout the country, but especially in Wall Street. Call money had already broken 3%, and the New York Reserve had reduced its rate to 4%. A year ago this would have resulted in the withdrawal of out-of-town balances from New York, and a consequent stiffening of the local money rates. This time, however, the country everywhere had an oversupply of funds. Hence, in the last week, all money descended to 2% for the first time in six years, while the New York Reserve further reduced its rate to 3½%, the lowest rate on record. Its example...
...advancing education in their great country. . . . It was Washington Irxing who called prejudices the inveterate diseases of old nations, "contracted in rude and ignorant ages." We forego the advantages of our birth into an enlightened age if we do not shake off national prejudices as we would the local superstitions of the Old World. In a day when legislators only cloud the sky of international concord, this out-reaching spirit of Yale is one of the redeeming forces which serves to draw East and West closer together...
...must go before the people on the question of taxation, on great local...
...this league come from colleges in New Jersey and New York state, and it has in the past been necessary for the University team to take many long trips in the course of each season. Next year these trips will be avoided almost entirely and a schedule with local teams will be arranged more suitable to the development of the unexperienced material composing the University squad...