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...Strict Sabbatarians are determined to make this Sesquicentennial Sunday closing an issue which may have greater repercussions throughout the country than the Fundamentalist-Modernist row. Sabbath Associations last week sent representatives to Harrisburg, Pa., the state capital. These gentlemen spoke so intimately, so forcibly, to State Attorney General George Washington Woodruff, that he changed his mind from its former course, and immediately instituted quo warranto proceedings against the Sesquicentennial management...
...loyalty, to a totem, a kindred in this case with legions and generations of Harvard men. But such a sacrifice must not come unaccompanied by clear understanding and appreciation. The mass form assumed by the celebration tends constantly to render this appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming less rare. The graduate who brings his family back to parade and cheer is rendering homage to his totem, but the parades and the cheers are not the basic thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice...
...June World's Work remarks--the passing of what William Allen White terms "American Populism" with the death of Bryan. Roosevelt, Wilson, and La Follette. Before 1890, the Populist Party, which at its height commanded but 22 electoral votes, demanded curbing of the trusts, strict regulation of railroads, banking reform, popular election of Senators, an income tax, and cheap money. At the hour of first demand, politicians of the major parties would have none of these issues. By 1917 all except the last had found expression in law. They permeated the political life of two decades and attached themselves...
...Underwood's exposition is rather too technical for a strict Methodist. The game is played about as follows: Five cards each are dealt to players, of whom there may be from two to six. Counters called "chips" representing money, real or imaginary, are used, and each player who believes that the cards dealt him may possibly win, places one or more of these counters in the centre of the table in a pile, which is called the "pot." Those who do this are then privileged (but not required) to call on the dealer for from one to five cards...
...original American college was patterned rather after Eton College than Oxford University. It was a superior school with a few masters, by whom morals and manners could be carefully watched. It was under the strict control of the Church and subject to visitation. Until the middle of the last century library and laboratory facilities were almost non-existent. Text books were few and poor. The student gained a passing acquaintance with twenty standard texts, scarcely more. Standards inevitably suffered from the poverty and remoteness from cultural centres. The college of 1850 had developed scarcely higher than the best boarding schools...