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...next four years are almost certain to be the most troublesome in the history of the United States. The next President should be a man familiar not only with our domestic problems, but also with our foreign problems. I believe that General Wood comes nearer meeting this acid test than any other candidate. He is not merely a great soldier, he is a great American. His record shows that during his entire career he has never undertaken any task and not completed it successfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: URGES WOOD FOR PRESIDENCY | 3/4/1920 | See Source »

...calls on the subconscious mind by other mind vibrations. All the criteria of dispassionate, inductive science are seen in Spiritism. Let Psychic Research stand to view in the clear, cold reason advocated by William James. Our religion is apart from it. We cannot drink our communion wine from a test tube...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "OPEN MIND." | 3/3/1920 | See Source »

...higher standard in its choice of numbers and its performance. The selections ranged from austere classics like Palestrina, Vittoria, Lotti, and Bach to modern romanticists like Brahms, Borodine, and Granville Bantock. The technical and interpretative resources of the chorus could hardly have been subjected to a more searching test, but the singers conquered the difficult counterpoint of "Adoramus Te" and the equally difficult chromatic harmony of "The Lady of the Lagoon" triumphantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Critic of the Boston Globe Finds Kreisler Concert Success | 3/1/1920 | See Source »

...leaves for Princeton, where Coach Anderson's men will tackle the Orange and Black tonight in their third meet of the season. After victories over both Tufts and Springfield in the past two weeks, Captain MacDonell leads his men down to New Jersey with confidence in their ability to test the strong Princeton team to its utmost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS TACKLE PRINCETON | 2/28/1920 | See Source »

...eventually to sanction boxing meets with other colleges, it will do so on second hand information. The question for us is not whether Yale and Princeton men have or have not the qualities needed to foster boxing as a sport, but whether our own material can stand the acid test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/26/1920 | See Source »

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