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...observation, the well-trained observer and the accurate recorder. Certainly the first of these conditions is met in most American colleges. The institutions are located in small towns, where the college is the town, and the town is the college. Our Puritan ancestors, who wanted their colleges organized as Roman, Republics in order that the classical experience might be relived by the boys in their teens, have had their way in many respects. The American college town is a commonwealth, the living conditions in which are quite as Utopian as Comenjus and his friends could have desired. The college...
...action of the Vatican cannot be passed over. It seems to be incumbent upon me to express to our clergy and people, and to any others who are interested, my judgment in the matter." The action of Rome, he pursued, "seems wholly at variance with the teaching of the Roman Church as to the sacredness of marriage. . . . What right has a Vatican court to pass upon the validity of marriage between members of another communion, solemnized in a Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, under the laws of the U. S. . . . There is much evidence which runs counter...
...Roman Catholics devoted no time to answering a question which rose to the lips of many a Protestant: "Why does the Roman Catholic Church refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state...
Brushing aside this question of principle, the Roman Catholic clergy pointed out the perfect technical propriety of the Vanderbilt- Marlborough annulment by the Rota, a court so august that the sheer weight of its legal machinery prevents it being set in motion except in behalf of litigants of some consequence. Said Father Parsons, editor of the Roman Catholic Weekly America, speaking over the radio at Manhattan: "Let it be remembered that the Rota has been sitting on cases such as this since 1323. For over 900 years persons having grounds for believing that their marriages are invalid have appeared before...
...think only in multiples of 50 that day as squads of relatives and platoons of friends came to his 40-acre flower garden at Pasadena, Calif., to wish the couple felicitations. He, merry and expansive, withal a little ill, welcomed them, fed them, entertained them, as no man since Roman politicians has done. "Kolossal," cried guests...