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...Nation-wide praise of the Arnold Arboretum and an anonymous gift of one hundred thousand dollars for the forestry work at Petersham show that this branch of the University located outside of Cambridge is the most important institution of its kind. One is reminded that although a century ago the entire University could be seen from the belfry of the First Parish Church, today mail requires three weeks to reach the farthest branch...
...best of all Dr. Gray's is a happy, positive creed that absorbs and stimulates. He hates the passive viewpoint which is largely responsible for the student's dissatisfaction with existing methods of worship. And he draws from a wide experience, with the British Army, city congregations, and college audiences, to show why religion is to him real and desirable...
...born in Galesburg, Ill. He was a soldier in the Spanish-American War. He has worked on railroads. He has washed dishes. He has been a political organizer and soap-box orator. He attended "Lombard College," where he was editor-in-chief of the undergraduate paper. Wide contacts with the facts of life have given him a love of people in the mass of crowds, of ugliness, of brutality. More than any other American poet, with his curious rythms sprung from Negro and Indian sources, with his slang and his brassy effects, he has, I believe, reached the heart...
...open its first annual conference on world welfare work at Washington on April 30. The meetings will take place at " Clifton," the home of the Alliance, on the outskirts of the Capital. Delegations of women from all over the world are expected. The subjects of discussion will cover a wide range-from " Unemployment in England" to " Character Education in Homes, Babies and Children...
...creed of Bolshevism. As a matter of fact liberty in all its forms is non-existent in Russia today. Even under the Tsar's despotism the average man had more personal liberty than he has now. Hereunder the effects of the Soviet Government's deafness to world-wide appeals...