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634 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, x925 responsible for so much of our swollen crime figures. While calling for more speedy and drastic treatment of "known criminals," Mr. Cooley points out the only...
...November 4, x925 THE COMMONWEAL 635 Religion, too, has felt the impact of this new idea UNITED COLLEGE MEN and apart from the fact that unity is God's will for His followers, men are beginning to feel that some measure of corperation among those who profess Christianity is the only possible method...
...Even where this is not possible it is recognized that mutual understanding and the spirit of friendliness are better than cut-throat competition...
...You may finally provide a mechanical explanation for the doings of Walter and his associates, and juggle tables as well as any of them...
...Boring, and take refuge in the destructive criticisms of experts like Houdini...
...Whatever the cause, one no longer finds sectarianism extolled as an ideal and the spirit of union is in the air...
...He has found, to begin with, that a cleft by no means imag- inary separates him from those who have been edu- cated outside the Church...
...I N reporting the twenty-seven ghosts which once came scratching into one of the famous Mr...
...The Catholic Church has always, of course, held firmly to the ideal of unity...
...634 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, x925 responsible for so much of our swollen crime figures...
...A point of considerable interest is that these dis-coveries have been made by two Catholic priests, Fathers L. and T. de Chardin...
...It is only a short time ago that everything looking like combination was imme-diately suspect...
...and we feel that it rightly regards the educated life as a form of that chivalry which, as Burke said, "without confounding ranks has produced a noble equality, and handed it down through all the gradations of social life...
...THE Boston Herald's story of how Harvard psychologists investigated the deeds of Margery, the medium, and her spirit voice, Walter, ought to do quite a little towards reviving interest in what is respect- fully termed "the psychic...
...Not a little of this spirit on the part of the sects is due to a break- down in the dogmatism of earlier generations artd the substitution of live-and-let-live for a lively faith...
...We believe that its plan holds out the promise of excellent achievement...
...Indeed, such was his zeal and his success that he was set upon by fanatical schismatics, who, with axe and bullet, cruelly put him to death on November I2, I623...
...and he has often been forced to concede the indifference of his own brethren to the especial stamp of cultural training which is his heritage from university life...
...Robert F. Keegan which The Commonweal is publishing in this number treats the matter in greater detail than space in this section allows...
...tion of reparation as opposed to mere punitive retalia- tion which society inflicts because it is easier to punish, or even pardon unintelligently, than to "think in the heart" and "consider" the lot of the erring brother or sister...
...They share an attitude towards virtue and even refinement of manner which assuredly has little in common with the ideals of Harvard...
...Like all his brethren in "spirit-land," he seems to have been educated by Mephlsto...
...For a great deal of work remains to be done...
...But the really amazing thing about Walter and his ilk is their level of culture...
...It would be hard to put into fewer and more cogent words, the old Catholic and Christian concep...
...After his canonization, which followed in due course, his feast was ordered celebrated on Novem-ber I4...
...But the spirit in which the labor of organization has been undertaken lends optimism to the wish that Catholic alumni may find their rightful place in American activities, aided and fortified by those in authority...
...Edward Dore at their head, will stage, beginning with November 6, a brilliant three-day program at the Hotel Commodore, New York City...
...We join the officers of the federation in hoping that as many men as possible will attend the gatherings...
...If there is something in this trait, humanity has nothing to gain from association with it...
...Our "anti-trust" laws, orders of the courts dissolving great corporations, the strenuous re- sistance offered to suggestions of railroad mergers and the like all bore witness to the feeling of the country in that regard...
...We may refuse to credit the testi- mony of such men as Dr...
...Honored by the presence and patronage of His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes, and afforded excel- lent opportunities for better mutual acquaintance under the leadership of important members of the clergy and laity, the delegates ought to leave knowing the greatness of the task to which their organization is pledged...
...This holy man labored earnestly during his short life (he was only about forty at the time of his death) to bring back the Ruthenian people to the Faith...
...Pride and prejudice prevent them from making full admission of the impossibility of their present position, but more and more they are coming to the realization that Rome does supply something which they sadly lack...
...It seems that this com-mon dissoluteness of conduct is the "psychic" circum- stance which is most difficult to account for...
...In this a remarkable change has come over public sentiment within the past few years...
...Hume's s~ances, Hawthorne remarked--"These ghosts must have been very improper persons in their lifetime, judging by the indecorousness of their behavior even after death, and in such dreadful circumstances...
...The world which neglects its saints is more than willing to explore its satanisms...
...No group of students ever proceeded with more scientific rigor...
...There has been a great deal of loose talk about "leadership" and the duties of the educated citizen---loose because it has never taken into account the isolation which graduates soon tumble into when their degrees have been framed, and which reduces their intellectual in- terests to a wabbly minimum...
...Wal-ter was, to say the least, Rabelaisian: he juggled profanity more lightly by far than the little trinkets supplied for his disporting, and his poetry was rather noticeably below the level of the contemporary Ameri- can output...
...The Orthodox churches of the East, confronted as they are with the d~b~cle of Russian Christianity and the utter failure of a too great dependence upon state support, are beginning to entertain a considerable degree of reunion sentiment...
...spirit, and the return to God's image of the likeness the world has marred and defaced...
...It will, above all else, perhaps, deepen the conviction that colleges in which religion has a home are among the best sources of supply for that moral integrity of which the nation stands so much in need...
...It will lay bare certain of the problems which the Catholic educational system is attempting to settle...
...Saint Josaphat is the great martyr of unity and has been designated by Pope Plus XI as the patron of the Catholic Union, a society for the reunion with Rome of the separated Christians of Russia and the Near East...
...Its first convention, arranged by energetic officials with Mr...
...The ideal of unity has never been entirely lost in the East...
...for they pulled the hostess's skirts so hard as to break the gathers...
...It is very difficult to equate the implements with the classical series of Europe, but it would appear that, roughly speaking, they are of Mousterian character, and thus belong to the class connected with such skulls as that at Neanderthal and that recently discovered in Galilee...
...We do not know how much the newly formed fed- eration can accomplish...
...Besides which, it is a good thing for education and the social well-being that college men come together and attempt to concentrate upon what they hold in common...
...The Catholic college man has been lonely in a very special way...
...Now all this is changed and we are inclined to welcome as signs of a greater efficiency efforts on the part of those engaged in the same line to get together...
...There are now councils held by those who are business rivals while many inter-business organizations thrive...
...Its job is not a matter for an easy half-holiday...
...Cooley points out the only way in which reclamation of those who have fallen into crime through misfortune and evil environment may be accomplished...
...Its work has been commended by the Holy Father, and many members of the American hier-archy have added their commendation...
...A COMMON charge against the Church is that its public utterances, undxceptionable as they may be, are rather in the nature of pious homilies than practical schemes for carrying the Sermon on the Mount into our modern life...
...EAST AND WEST T HAT this is the day of consolidation and union is evidenced in all departments of life...
...And even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has not produced a spirit that would receive a fair mark in deportment at even a very lax boarding school...
...Her efforts for the criminal, at least, are a convincing answer to this comment...
...This notion is still unpopular outside her fold, but sentiment in its favor is growing...
...It boldly declares that the Church is essentially one--makes unity a mark by which the true Church is distinguished, and further de- clares that such unity can be had only by communion with the see of Rome...
...T HE National Catholic Alumni Federation means to be considerably more than a respectable title for something dead...
...Such a one was Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc, archbishop of Polotsk in the seventeenth century...
...It shows her conception of the much-abused term "scientific treat- ment" as applied to those who by their very failure, have become charges of the state...
...Among Anglicans there is a party which openly acknowledges that "the glorious Reformation" was a good deal of a failure and they would fain unite with the parent stem once more...
...This is scientific, first and foremost, because its science is, as it must be to be operative at all, based upon the things of the...
...His aid is daily invoked by all members of the union...
...The federation can foster the remembrance of alma mater...
...It is "through the channels of spiritual development, family, health, education, thrift, recreation, employment, and the long look ahead...
...AMONG the most interesting archaeological dis-coveries which have been made in recent times, is that of three sites in southern China which had been oc-cupied by palaeolithic men, one of them on the Yellow River and another on a tributary of the Hoang-ho...
...it can also enable her to look forward towards years of widening service, when sacrifice shall bring richer fruit...
...This convention will weld the federation into a unit...
...Yet it re-mains just as necessary as ever to warn large groups of people against thus hoping to establish communica- tion with their dead friends, or to find a subterranean proof of immortality...
...Our colleges will always be handicapped by inadequate re- sources and prestige if graduation at the end of four years means goodbye forever...
...An article by Dr...
...From among every schismatic body there has been a faithful remnant united to Rome and those who have espoused her cause have been valiant in defense of their principles...
...but the presence of a deep-rooted psychological trait is truly mysterious and not to be pooh-poohed among spirits any more than among mor- tals...
...No human remains were found, but a number of stone implements, hearths, and the bones of many animals, including a complete skull of a rhinoceros...
...none ever confronted a more whimsical and baffling phenomenon than the "teleplasmic arm" which gamboled through a series of s6ances...
...More of it is probably due also to the fact that Protestant- ism has been gradually losing its hold upon the mass of our people, and many denominations are strongly inclined to abandon older prejudices in favor of some sort of union...
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