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...fact that Harvard is not so indifferent to public issues in general as some would make out. For the question of Prohibition is no more particular to the University than to the country at large. Moreover the fact that the moderationists won the day is a fair proof that prejudice played little part, that extremists on both sides curbed personal desires for what they considered the most reasonable solution, and therefore that reason divorced from prejudice is in favor of modification of the Volstead Act to allow light wines and beers...
...must have been a great adventure, and though its nautical days are over the club is as active as any homogeneous foc'sle well can be. Twice in the last week it has burst into print in American journals, and has survived, proof enough of a strong constitution. What is more it has burst generously. First it offered, through the Alumni Bulletin, a prize for the best suggestion of a subject for discussion offered by March 1, 1924. Now it continues its intellectual curiosity and challenges the "Advocate" to the tune of 100 dollars for its most striking article...
...started right in denouncing the administration. He will probably find much more to denounce before he stops. But the only positive statement he has made is to favor the bonus, and he has done this for so long in opposition to the administration and to the positive proof of figures that this amounts almost to a negative stand...
...Mountain to be convinced, but rather of the Mountain coming to Mohammed in order to convince him by a material display of power. Never having been acquainted with even the possibility of such a higher life as the spiritual before, the slave and citizen of Rome, and elsewhere, demanded proof in a sphere with which he was familiar--the realm of the physical...
...women of today need such proof of their faith? It seems rather unlikely, since miracles are rarely the basis of the Sunday sermons in their churches, nor do they often grace the front pages of their magazines and newspapers--except in advertisements. No, we have been admitted to the higher conception, and need no longer rest our belief upon such material matters. And as to the question of the Virgin Mary, which has lately aroused such animated discussion, it is hard to see just what difference an affirmative or negative decision can make in our faith. Is it not possible...