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...It seems to signalize a renaissance in the realm of higher education, a rebirth of ideals much needed by an overstandardized world...

...What it comprises is virtually a rededication of the university to the ideals that inspired President Gilman and his associates...

...Chaotic as the Russian revolution was, it could in the end utilize the previously established channels of political action...

...It puts in succinct and convincing language the Church's distinction between two forms of nationalism—the sane kind that, just because it loves its country would have its country loved...

...The world today is too complex in organization, too dependent upon international trade-routes, established in whatever manner, to accept with equanimity a Bolshevist Asia...

...The photograph used as evidence showed the state's witnesses as members of a confirmation class of an Omaha church...

...1 HE New Plan, as it is called at Johns Hopkins, is gradually transforming the university...

...For592 tunately, the broad scholarship and sterling common sense of lecturers like Dr...

...Developing forms that are more and more intransigent, it has beguiled humanity into one disastrous adventure after another...

...Revision of the curricula has been made and will soon be published...

...Every possible effort has been made to avoid baiting the Chinese and unnecessarily endangering foreigners...

...MORE than two centuries and a half ago, a branch of the princely house of Breffny left an Ireland that was already 'Splotched with alien shames," and carried its sword and its talents for public service to northern Europe...

...A generation has sufficed to alter the forces behind Chinese revolutionary nationalism from a superstitious secret society into an ultra-modern political party that can use propaganda and direct action as glibly as anybody else...

...Others know that no enslavement is so complete, and no situation so beset by peril, as that of the woman who has entered into a union of whose endurance passion is the only guarantor, and law "outside the law" the sole protection...

...Of course, there is no debate on the point that Mr...

...But the most cruel verdict was that passed on Longfellow—he was "mid-Victorian...

...Significantly enough, two of the nine buildings selected this year are Catholic churches...

...Sapiro has every right which a Gentile might claim in parallel circumstances...

...Today creative artistry is associated with ecclesiastical architecture in a manner which wins steadily more and more respect from those who are competent to judge the craft of building...

...Meanwhile, patience must be the constant policy of the United States...

...So many thorny problems needing so much earnest thought must not be ignored by public opinion, especially where that opinion is at the same time instructed and Catholic...

...TWO things have stood out in the trial of the libel suit for $1,000,000, brought by Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford: the clear manner in which the issue has been defined by the court, and the expeditious way in which the cause has been presented...

...A genuine advance in the history of American education has been made, the cleavage between the work of the first two years of college and that beyond has been sharply defined, and the work of purely collegiate character has been completely segregated...

...The Bishop draws a sharp distinction between true patriotism and the "deification of nationalism...

...Her prestige on the Asiatic continent, none too secure for a generation, is undoubtedly the target at which the foreign policy of Russia today is directed...

...IT IS singularly appropriate that the Laetare Medal, awarded each year by Notre Dame University to the Catholic American who has achieved distinction in literature, the arts, science, or public service, should be granted this year to Margaret Anglin...

...Other educational activities are also involved —the college for teachers, and the night courses for technical workers and for business men and women— which must continue until some other local school is ready to carry them...

...It is impossible to see any drift toward a stable government in China...

...The moral of the grim and sordid tragedy may be left to speak for itself...

...BIENNIALLY the Washington, D. C, Board of Trade awards prizes to buildings of "decided merit" in design and construction...

...AMID the welter of homicides, suicides, and generally violent exits from the terrestrial scene, with which the columns of the press have been filled within the past fortnight, one obscure item deserves rescue, if only for the lesson it embodies...

...Whittier, says Mr...

...These are the beautiful and intricate arrangements of 594 curves of the type called "engine-turned," such as are used, for instance, on the backs of watches...

...This, then, is the New Plan...

...FATHER WILLIAM F. RIGGE, S.J., has been for nearly fifty years associated as professor of astronomy with Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, where there is an excellently equipped astronomical observatory...

...Robbins declares, "is not prudish, whatever may be said about it," cares little for the classics of other days, some of the work of those days will always have a place in literature...

...Nevertheless, the most important part of the New Plan is already in operation...

...Meanwhile, the foreign attitude has also undergone a radical change...

...The Catholic women of New York are to be congratulated likewise, not merely upon the sacrifices made to arrange the series, but also upon their intelligent readiness to weigh and discuss the matters brought forward...

...Those who are impressed by this number will gasp when they learn that Father Rigge's machine will turn out the almost incredible total of 7,618,782,498 combinations—a figure which it is not likely will be passed by any other machine...

...THE initial step—the elimination of the first two years of college—cannot be taken, however, until the present endowment is considerably increased, the legal obligation to receive the graduates of all the state and city high schools is removed, and the moral obligation to give the young men of Baltimore the necessary elementary college education is assumed by other institutions...

...Robbins, is assured of his place because of Barbara Frietchie, and another American writer who will survive is Thomas Buchanan Read, who gave to the world Sheridan's Ride...

...Already nineteen students, who completed their sophomore work in June, 1926, with exceptional credit, are following graduate courses...

...Essentially Chinese civilization has been so utterly non-political in character that its very virtues, so admirable in themselves, impede the progress of the state...

...Heretofore it has been the achievement of the "campylograph" of another Jesuit, Father Dechevrens of Jersey, in the English Channel Islands, to produce what was considered the largest number of such combinations possible—979...

...In substance, the New Plan provides, first, that the freshman and sophomore years be eliminated and that the junior and senior years be absorbed by the graduate school...

...and the other sort, grown only too familiar, which sees in every other country's well-being a challenge to vanity, and in every other country's difficulties a chance to foment misunderstandings with a view of making fresh groupings that shall serve it in an eventual clash of interests...

...Father Rigge's book is very highly praised by the Scientific American, whose observations are paraphrased above...

...Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador to the United States, recently brought this aspect of the matter to the attention of a Massachusetts audience...

...Nevertheless, while the present generation, which, as Mr...

...Recently there has appeared from Father Rigge's pen a book containing the description of a machine constructed by the author's own hands, at the small cost of $50.00, for making harmonic curves...

...The story concerns a New Jersey carpenter who, after living for several years with his housekeeper in one of those ideal unions of temperament in which neither church nor state is asked to intervene, suddenly found himself cut out by a rival who offered the old-fashioned solatium of marriage...

...In other words, it is a bold attempt to stem the dissolution of the graduate school, deteriorating under the constant democratization of education and the consequent lowering of scholastic standards...

...One may believe in the resurrection of the literary dead, but the case of the poor "mid-Victorian" is beyond praying for —he is damned for all eternity...

...The privilege of doing advanced work is to be extended to exceptional students who demonstrate their fitness during the freshman-sophomore period, either at Hopkins, as long as this unit is part of the university, or elsewhere...

...Walsh help to correct this erroneous assumption in any part of their audiences which share it...

...and if the future remains faithful to the best impulses of the present, cheap and soulless work will be dissociated at last from the temples of faith...

...IN THE second variety, the Bishop of Dantzig sees no kinship whatever with Christianity or Christian ideals...

...Ideas like "self-determination" have made such headway among western peoples that an old-fashioned defense of imperialism is now utterly ineffective...

...These may be masterpieces worthy to displace the works of Byron and Tennyson, but how well known are they to a nonprudish generation...

...Moreover, there is nothing to hinder the immediate reorganization of the faculty of philosophy...

...A great advance has been made...

...At the same time, their very seriousness—granting that they were believed to be supported by evidence—obviously rendered it the duty of the owner and the editor of a periodical professedly dedicated to the public good, to make them...

...Every lecturer has spoken authoritatively, even though his point of view may not have compelled assent...

...Failure to grasp this rule is largely responsible for the catastrophic tension which has been maintained on the European continent by England and France...

...Judge Fred M. Raymond made it plain, early in the trial, that he intended to hold both sides to the matter contained in the complaint on which the suit had been brought—that a 593 certain individual and a newspaper owned by him had libeled another individual...

...Apart from the excellence of Miss Anglin's Shakespearean portrayals, her courage in presenting several of the classical Greek dramas has been equaled only by the illuminating character of her acting of the parts selected...

...One year later, during the trial of the accused, Father Rigge proved by means of the shadow on a building in a photograph that the state's witnesses were several miles from the scene at the time the bomb was placed...

...Ford's publication were serious...

...All we permit ourselves here is a mild wonder at the misnomer that ever labeled such unions "free" at all...

...Whatever may have been the sins of the imperialistic advance, it is well to remember there are other sins—not innocuous by comparison...

...It was only natural that as a professional man of standing he should resent them and seek vindication as well as substantial damages if he felt they were unfounded and unjust...

...Howard Hull, daughter of a former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, and sister of the present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada—the Right Honorable Francis Anglin...

...That actress is Margaret Anglin, in private life Mrs...

...Of those who have received the medal in the last forty-five years, she is the second member of the theatrical profession to be honored, and the first woman of that calling—the only other recipient among the people of the theatre having been the late Augustin Daly, a distinguished manager of the last generation...

...It has issued," he tells his flock (and the world) bluntly, "from the ferment and disorder of our modern era...

...J-/ECTURES on international relations, given under the auspices of the New York Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, have attracted large audiences...

...The point which Dr...

...The Church of the Sacred Heart, designed by the firm of Murphy and Olmstead, likewise won praise as being "beautifully treated in an extremely clever manner...

...So far, the conduct of United States military forces in Shanghai and elsewhere has been exemplary...

...To have permitted the case to become a debate on the merits or demerits of Judaism because the plaintiff happens to be a Jew, would have been both ridiculous and opposed to national and legal polity...

...As some compensation, a letter, left behind by the deserted (and departed) paramour reproached the intruder bitterly for having "broken up his home...

...Men of eminence are being sought to fill chairs recently made vacant by death, or others that are to be established...

...The Bishop's timely words, based solidly, as he does not fail to remind his flock, upon the encyclical, Ubi Arcano Dei, promulgated by the reigning Pontiff, are none the less worthy of worldwide application because they happen to come from a city that is only too patently one of the storm centres of post-war Europe...

...This was not only good law, but sound common sense...

...The bomb had exploded without loss of life...

...Tennyson's works were "on the toboggan slide," and those of William Cullen Bryant were passe...

...Similar disregard for alien habits was what roused the ire of travelers like Wilfrid Blunt against British and other policies in the Levant...

...Man," he reminds us, "is not only a member of his own nation, but a member of the great human family...

...The defense of our consulates and citizens in China is another matter...

...The charges made against Mr...

...Great Britain has, of course, especial reasons for regarding the present chaos with profound alarm...

...In China, however, democratic experience has no model excepting discarded forms of a semi-feudal rule, and some few hastily-learned lessons of foreign procedure...

...Of Trinity College Chapel, designed by Maginnis and Walsh, the prize committee says: "The interior is a work of high order in architectural composition and ranks, no doubt, among the finest achievements in the country...

...By measuring the shadow, Father Rigge was able to fix the exact time that the photograph was taken...

...Not teaching, but research, is to be the watchword...

...And there is much reason for believing that a certain contemptuousness on the part of United States citizens is to a very great extent responsible for the chaotic character of Latin-American relations...

...Thackeray's popularity was on the decline and Dickens was steadily losing readers because he was not lurid enough...

...Only the congenital moron is deceived by the sophistry today...

...The state's witnesses swore that they saw the accused place the bomb under the porch, and fixed the hour of the day at 3 :22 on a Sunday afternoon...

...On THE other hand, it is perfectly apparent that the United States government has absolutely no motive for associating itself with Great Britain in the present Chinese difficulties...

...One of the recent lectures was an exposition of the background of Mexico by Dr...

...The case consequently was nulled, and the accused was given his freedom...

...591 WEEK BY WEEK THE gravity of the Chinese situation is indicated clearly enough by the divergence between the present European way of meeting it, and the methods which were employed in 1901...

...Thus, while they are still enthusiastic and intellectually curious, they will have the opportunity to study seriously and develop rapidly...

...At a time when public officials are endeavoring to find a means of purifying the American stage, and especially the New York stage, without resorting to censorship, one actress stands out as a typification of all that is educative in selection and all that is finished in presentation in the national theatre of today...

...The important matter is not to codify a doctrine of international procedure, but to set forth indubitable principles and then to suggest ways in which those principles may be realized in practice...

...they were aware that in all probability they would have to face court action...

...To protect lives and the national honor is a duty which government cannot forego, even if great danger and difficulty are involved...

...It seems only a few years ago when one could safely assume of any projected church that its design would follow certain stereotyped outlines...

...He recalls the words of Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, upon the squabbles between Greeks and Hebrews in the early church, and concludes: "When a people forgets these divine precepts, when with blind pride and false egoism it would rear itself into an idol and consider other peoples as means to its ends, sound love of country suffers a change to a form of nationalism that is unjust and anti-Christian...

...James J. Walsh...

...MEMBERS of the Pennsylvania Library Club, at their annual meeting held recently in Atlantic City, heard some remarkable literary estimates from Edward Robbins, vice-president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, who discussed Dead Books and Dying Authors, Byron, they were told, had gone into "total and permanent eclipse," along with Dryden and Gray...

...From a scion of this illustrious family, Bishop Edward O'Rourke of Dantzig, a Lenten pastoral has recently been issued which fully deserves the space devoted to it by the Osservatore Romano...

...the details are of great restraint and distinction...

...Such honors reveal very clearly to what extent Catholic building in this country has risen above the trammels of convention and bad taste...

...and though his alarm may have seemed a little unreal to some American ears, it deserves sympathetic attention...

...Every people must respect highly the form in which its own culture has been expressed, but it should scrupulously avoid acting on the assumption that peoples outside its national pale are inferior or decadent...

...The purpose is to encourage the erection of structures which, without being necessarily gorgeous or expensive, add to the beauty and attractiveness of the nation's capital...

...The resentment of the lover at this atavistic invasion of his rights, taking, as it did, the form of murder and suicide, was effective, and incomplete only so far as the absence of the third party to the triangle saved him from being thrown in to make good measure...

...A casual glance at Moscow manifestos will prove this, quite independently of any evidence designed to show that the Cantonese have been drugged with Soviet propaganda...

...The worst aspects of the situation are, indeed, wholly native in character...

...Whether they were justified by the evidence is the one and only issue which the jury hearing the damage suit has to decide...

...The degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy (there will be no Bachelor degrees) are to be conferred solely on the basis of proficiency and achievement, rather than on that of years of residence or the literal fulfilment of arbitrary academic standards...

...Walsh stressed—the need for seeing that Mexican civilization is Indian, not white in character—must be borne in mind to some extent in all international relations...

...The notice concludes with the account of an incident which reads like a quotation from a detective story: "Seventeen years ago an Omaha man was accused of placing a bomb under the porch of a well-known Omaha politician...

...Sapiro in Mr...

...They knew the law of libel...

...It may be a long time before China will be ready to take a stable place among the nations, or even to enforce the elements of international courtesy...

...and secondly, that the faculty of philosophy be reorganized in such a way as to effect certain desirable aims...

...The proportions are impressive...