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...following Out of Course students in Harvard College received scholarships: M. V. Anastos, Woodcliffe-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Barrett Hoyt, Brookline; A. M. Kobrick, Brooklyn, N. Y.; R. C. Morrison, Cambridge; A. M. Murphy, Boston; Peter Peterson, Somerville; P. M. Sheldon, Detroit, Mich...
Under the heading "A Solemn Responsibility," leading editorial in last week's Christian Century, Editor Charles Clayton Morrison made that statement which, he said "has been a fact for a long time but has not been recognized until now." Occasion for Editor Morrison's awakening was the announcement of the change of Christian Herald from weekly to monthly schedule beginning next February.* "It is not too much to say that the success or failure of Prohibition may rest with The Christian Century," he added...
...Editor Morrison had to bank heavily upon his distinction between an undenominational magazine, as The Christian Century describes itself, and the denominational press. Except for the Wet Catholic journals, most important of which are Commonwealth and America, the denominational press is mainly a Dry bulwark. Prohibition leans hard upon the support of the Methodist Episcopal Christian Advocate (circulation 250,000), the Presbyterian Christian Observer (34,553), and their like...
...Editor Morrison further said...
...meet what Editor Morrison described as a deplorable emergency he rallied his readers as follows: "[Our readers] already constitute the most powerful moral bloc of public opinion in this nation. How better can they exercise their power than by enlarging the bloc itself? . . . Every teacher in your public school should now be sought out-every professor on your college faculty-every minister in your town-every legislator in your state and representing your state at Washington-every colleague on your board-every parishioner in your congregation who can read serious discussion-every lawyer, physician, club woman, thoughtful business man, political...