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...Pennsylvania Railroad also chuffed over to the Democratic Nominee. Its president, William Wallace Atterbury, re-signed as the State's Republican National Committeeman because he refused to support Nominee Pinchot. Again exploded Nominee Pinchot: "My demand that Atterbury . . . either perform or resign has borne fruit. . . . Atterbury has been using the employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad on time paid for with its money to do his political bidding, to the serious cost of the stockholders of the road. . . . It is an outrageous abuse of the interests of the railroad. . . . His treachery to the party which honored him has made...
...president of the Club, after a meeting of the executive committee. Several musicians of note have intimated that they would accept invitations from the Club to address its meetings. All phases of musical activity will be represented on the year's schedule by composers, orchestral conductors, solo artists and performers, and scholars. Instructors in the University will take an active part in the presentation of programs. Students, also, will perform classic and modern work on modern and antiquated instruments. Interest in composition will be encouraged by the rendition of new compositions by students and instructors. A definite schedule of speakers...
Rehearsals in preparation for this concert have been in progress since September 26, when the score and parts of the composition, the words for which were written by Robert Hillyer, were finished. The singers who will perform in this offering are nearly all members of last year's chorus. While the veterans have been engaged in preparing for this presentation, which is unusually early in the season, the new members have been rehearsing the program for the regular school and local concerts. In addition to these latter appearances it is expected that the combined choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe will...
...most significant duties which Master General Gillet has to perform in the U. S. are ineffable. He is a member of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office. The purposes of that office are fundamental to Roman Catholicism. It defends the teaching of faith and morals. It censors and condemns "dangerous" books, and permits the special reading of such books. It dispenses priests from fasting before mass. It judges, as supreme court, all cases of mixed marriages. It judges heresy and all offenses leading to a suspicion of heresy. All members take an oath of secrecy, "the secret...
What, then, is the primary object of a college education? "It is," says President Hibben of Princeton, "to fit each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being." It is, is it not, to equip young men to play their full part in the life of their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations...