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...poll of Harvard's 48,000 alumni on what they believe would be the most suitable war memorial for the University will be made, according to a statement issued last night by a committee of Harvard Alumni...
...Charles E. Jefferson has said that it took him 25 years to master the important detail of "pulpit technique," which, in the recent poll conducted by the Christian Century, caused him to be listed among the 25 most able U. S. preachers. This technique consists of a manner as far removed from oratory as it is from the garbled sensationalism of street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous...
...charitable institutions, thriving on tax-exemption, do more harm than good. Mrs. MacFadden argues in favor of a head tax of $4, which would yield Massachusetts more that its income tax and be far simpler to collect. She does not see why women should now be exempt from the poll tax. "The Next Question" is a stimulating and provocative book. It deserves the widest reading, even among those who are content with the tax system...
...slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...
Antonietta de Martino, Secretary & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Nicholas Longworth and many another. They all went last week to the inaugural performance of the American Opera Company in Poll's Theatre, Washington...