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...Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...
Needless to say, sabotage is a threat. Should construction work fall into the hands of a foreign power, havoc could be wrought behind the fences. By an ingenious system of tunnels, Widener could be drained of every learned periodical this side of the Reading Room. Then, too, the workers in charge might run berserk in their lonely isolation behind the fences and, from force of habit, rear another Weld or Matthews...
...ideals and principles. To decide the host of issues which confront him, the citizen must inform himself, and weigh and analyze the evidence in the light of possible alternatives and concrete, practical effect. Waldo Frank is a writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system. Yet, in his latest book, "Chart for Rough Water", he takes the stand for which undergraduates are accused of being faithless and skeptical, and says, "We must try, it seems to me plain...
Commission-chosen to expound the new canon was Professor Howard Chandler Robbins of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. His statement that "forgiveness should be characteristic of the Church, and allowance should be made for the individual's attitude," showed what an ecclesiastical revolution widespread divorce has wrought. For paradoxically, Episcopalians, despite their strong stand in the past against divorce, almost certainly have the highest divorce rate of any U. S. sect. Among the Episcopalians whom the revised canon might make eligible for Communion: Elliott Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt...
...Andrews' collection showed beautifully wrought cupboards, chests, beds, trestle tables, chairs with ball-&-socket joints that could be tilted backward, coopersware, woven articles, primitive drawings of saints and heavenly visions, a complete herb shop. Since the Shakers despised anything so "giddy" as decoration, were even leary of curves, the collection was functional...