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They pinned it on the faded bathrobe and waited for him to say something, waited several minutes before the tired, grizzly man, tears in his eyes, could thank them, protest that he had done "nothing to deserve this unusual distinction...
...Southern California, took up the issue. Phrases like this were flaunted under the noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective was the agitation that three student bodies voted against required chapel in the fall...
...College a rather minor rule that requires instrutors in full courses to test the work of the first half year on the final examination. It is a minor rule because it is an orphan. No one seems to enforce it or obey it. Hence there can be no protest against the educational injustice it might inflict by demanding detailed knowledge best forgotten. In its present status, the rule evokes comment only on the mild absurdity of its existence...
However, Miss Repplier reminds the public that but fifty-seven years have passed since James Russell Lowell wrote "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners"; While much less time has elapsed since William James felt constrained to protest that "in the last analysis, the Yankee also is a creature of God." Styles may shift but, it is Miss Repplier's uncontentious contention, culture itself is not transplanted within half a century. Even if it be allowed that seeds of artistry have thriven somewhat in the western world, at least salt has not been strewn on the soil of Europe...
This poll like all others is after all a mere compilation of figures. And there are still those who will always protest that figures lie. But surely they, at least in this case, graph emphatically the persistent flow of distaste among sane and thinking people which is now moving about the halls of legislation and the courts of justice...