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...Grant first came into nation-wide prominence a year ago when his outspoken liberal views stirred up a bitter controversy in the New York diocese of the Episcopal Church. He took a decided stand against a literal interpretation of the Bible, maintaining that it should be applied to present-day needs and problems in a practical way Bishop William T. Manning of the New York diocese disagreed violently with Dr. Grant's utterances, and the dispute that followed shook the Episcopal Church to its foundations. Dr. Grant was firm in his advocacy of a livable religion and refused to retract...
...contemplation of present-day education, it is well to begin with the assumption--certainly not a mistaken one--that present educational methods are far from perfect. Consequently, any suggestion for improving them deserves consideration, and most especially when it comes from one like President Morgan who has actually experimented with education at Antioch College. President Morgan proposes a six or eight-year course, in which the cultural and professional elements would be blended, instead of the sharp division between these two elements now existing at almost all universities...
...ethics of the case, however, differ from the strictly legal construction. The existence of power by no means connotes its use, and for a considerable period now the Crown has relied upon the advice of its ministers, as expressed by the Premier, before dissolving Parliament. No King, under present-day conditions, would attempt to ignore or override the advice of his ministers, unless the act were incontrovertibly taken in the interests of the people, and such a situation is more than unlikely. Nothing in the present hypothetical situation presupposes that King George will depart from the strictly constitutional practice...
Professor Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz of the University of Freiburg will present to the University today the point of view of German economists on present-day economic problems in a lecture on "world Economics Before the World War and After". The lecture, which is under the auspices of the Liberal Club, will be in Emerson J at 4.30, and will be open to all members of the University...
...Whispering Wires" does not reach quite the high points of "The Bat", but it has the merit of never lagging, of wasting no time at all and of affording all the excitement that one actual murder and one near-murder can stir up in present-day barbaric theatre goers...