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...little-thought-of phase of the situation. He takes his stand as President of a state supported institution. A humane feeling, unselfish, philanthropic, is the first, one might say the chief and only requirement. Candidates for admission should be considered as citizens; their characters should be the test of their eligibility. "To assure ourselves, in so far as we can, that the boy or girl desiring a college education at public expense is able to show at least the fundamentals of a democratic social personality is our clear duty...
Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond...
...real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will meet her first test...
College Chapel. To test the present trend regarding compulsory religious education in U. S. colleges, the National Student Federation of America sent questionnaires to 315 college presidents and heard from practically every one. The vote: in favor of compulsory Sunday chapel attendance, 136, against 176; in favor of compulsory daily chapel, 220, against...
...hypochondria, especially among its most numerous non-native members, but also to genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test to pass before his discussion of sexual unhappiness, his strictures on adult-infantilism, his "shudder" and "premonition" of a new Dark Age, can be accepted by the fairly happy rank and unselfconscious file whose physicians still give them castor oil, gruff instructions...