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...Evolution is false morally because it makes for selfishness and for the glorification of brute force. This problem of evolution is at the basis of the struggle between Modernists and Fundamentalists. Ever since the dark shadow of Darwinism came over the world, public morality has been progressing downward. The world must have a moral foundation and that foundation can only be found in religion. Take away religion and the whole moral structure falls. Today we have lost vital religion and therefore we have lost morality. Evolutionary philosophy is godless...
Happily, no clouds shadow the relations between our two countries. Such slight causes of misunderstandings as arise are promptly removed and, as is always the case when friends disagree, the necessary explanations incidental to their adjustment make for friendship which is more enduring because the more candid. When two nations cherish similar ideals, growing out of a common regard for disciplined liberty, for truth and love of justice, they seek to work in essential harmony...
...dozen or so men were shadow boxing as the reporter entered the boxing room of the Hemenway Gymnasium. "Three days a week I have an average of 115 men boxing here, and the other days about 40," said Coach Shevlin. I am sure that I would have excellent material for a team, but I am against having this sport made an intercollegiate...
...stray shot while walking along Pennsylvania Avenue accompanied by his wife. Pennsylvania Avenue is the main thoroughfare in our National Capital and one of the historic thoroughfares of the world. It connects the Capitol Building with the White House. The appalling tragedy referred to occurred almost within the shadow of the Capitol. The newspaper stories are to the effect that there was a running battle between an agent of the National prohibition department and suspected bootleggers, in which pistol shots were freely exchanged, and that one going wild struck Hon. Frank Lester Greene, a United States Senator from the State...
...They called him austere when he was only gentle. Those who execrated Woodrow Wilson, who cried "Crucify, Crucify," those who knocked, knocked at the door of his sick room, spying upon a weary President, pursuing him like a deer set upon by snarling hounds, are now in the shadow of disgrace.' Applause cut me short. Then I went on: 'Are resting under the blight and stigma of a Nation's shame and reproach'? again I was interrupted by applause. It was Senator Fall, now the centre of the oil investigation, who visited President Wilson's bedroom during his illness...