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Miss Binney plays the simplicity foil to the merry-merry Follies chorus girl. Somebody is trying to marry them both ?not the same somebody, you understand. After that a lot of the usual musical comedy things happen. One forgets which...
...quite at liberty to publish this letter if you wish. I cannot understand how Dr. Lawrence, the Bishop of Massachusetts, can have said that ... I had come to the conclusion 'that there is no essential connection between the belief in the Virgin birth and a belief in the incarnation. . . . The fact of the virginal conception of Christ was no sooner heard than it was welcomed by the Church and taken up into its creed. It has seemed to all successive generations that the belief in the incarnation was so congruous with belief in the Virgin birth that the former...
...very convincing answer to the idea of a miraculous birth is found by a careful reading of the Bible; and we find that Mary never claimed such a fact; that in the only reported incident in which Jesus was questioned about it. He allowed his questioners to understand Joseph to be His father. But among the elaborate theologies that were built up after His death, the fact of His miraculous birth began to figure largely--because the old Jewish legend had said that it would...
...serious publication for the convenience of the University, and as such, it should be conducted by the most business-like, effective, method possible. By the plan proposed here, the best men for the purpose could be obtained. They would know the ropes, know how to work, and understand organization; they would have necessarily, every incentive to get the Register out as quickly as possible. Under such circumstances, the Register would appear in November instead of February and its purpose, now entirely defeated by its tardiness, would be fully accomplished...
Former Lampoon editors are naturally a little diffident about donning the motley, even under the stirring inspiration of a "Graduates' Dinner." So we are able to understand why the Old Graduates number of the Lampoon has more from the group which is neither Graduate nor Old than from the Elders...