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...resolution for unity." Thus he referred to the scheme of organization which he had devised to make union possible. It provides for one national Church having two jurisdictional sections, South and North. Concluding his speech the Bishop said: "It is a signal triumph of the unifying power of the passion and cross of Jesus Christ...
...commenting on this last phase of educational freedom that Mr. Russell voiced some of his appeals for the subjugation of passion to reason, of intolerance to intelligent skepticism, for which he was so condemned during the war. In demanding that students in truly free education should be allowed to consider the arguments on both sides of every question, he said...
...books and letters of value, a million and a half dollars seems a high price for such relies as those with which Dr. Rosenbach returned. Death masks are ornamental, of course, and a "fine Holland shirt" would probably survive at least one session with the washerwoman: but what secret passion could be satisfied by a "picket containing Napoleon's Hair", and a mummified tendon from the body of the Emperor, in a strange little box with a glass window", is hard for the layman to under stand. Moments of so distinctly personal a character might better have been decently buried...
...Coolidge invited a few guests to come to a showing of a cinema "Passion Play," directed by Mr. Blanchard of the Interior Department...
...World; in fact the stern-eyed Puritans were wont to frown upon it as the very text book of the devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would be no little shock to the presidential educator to scan the reading lists of English...