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...Russia's renouncing of all rights in the little country of Esthonia, and the declaration of the crarist treaty with Great Britain to divide Persia between the two countries as void, are typical examples of the spirit of justice and brotherhood embodied in the foreign policy. This mode of action is a real advance and not nearly so nebulous as the League of Nations or the World Court. The same spirit has been exhibited toward Turkey in the action of the Soviet, in leaving the choice of mandatory or occupation up to Turkey and the small Mohammedan countries...
...organ recital from until 9.10 o'clock, after the services in Appleton Chapel this morning. Mr. L. P. Reverage Beverage will play the following numbers. Choral Prelude "Schmuck Dieh" Brahms, March in the Dorian Mode, Gadimant...
...happily there is a less impossible mode of improvement at hand. It is not the method of these preliminary courses and lectures, likely as dull and incomprehensible as the incomprehensibilities they try to explain. The highest service the explanatory lecture can perform is to accustom the student to the mere mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach...
...Because," says Mr. Farrar, it would require a definite stand on our parts, a stand based on convictions, on a mode of conduct the mere thought of which causes us these days to be bored." One might conclude from this that Mr. Farrar's ideal American is the alert active person whose been eye takes in any given situation at a glance, whose firm feet immediately plant them selves immovably on one side of the fence in question, whose active mind thereafter either views with alarm what lies beyond the fence or points proudly to what he stands beside...
Nevertheless, faith healing has become so much the mode in Britain that last week the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed the Bishop of Southwark to preside over a council of six celebrated doctors and six clergymen to advise the Church "on all matters related to spiritual healing and healing missions." In this step some people thought they perceived a formal recognition of spiritual healing. Medicos, clerics, were asked for their opinions...