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...These two dedicatees, as Nature might have gone on to say, are today the leading exponents of the very progressive science of prehistoric archaeology, practically founded by another priest...

...How can any school expect its students to interest themselves in scholarship, scientific research or the genuinely academic professions when the men it applauds, year in and year out, have no other title to greatness than the fact that their signature on "the dotted line" is authentic and dependable...

...Walsh that, after years of "pegging away" at this matter, he can now say, with the schoolmaster in Stalky and Co., "After all some of It does stick...

...Hence it causes no surprise to find Dr...

...The custom of keeping dogs at all as pets is too easily assumed to be an indescriptible right...

...Nevertheless, if ever a moment existed when the American people might be willing to concede that the tradition implies two full terms, it is now...

...Quite naturally our conception of Huysmans differs from the idea of him which was passed round among his contemporaries...

...The nation is indulgent toward Mr...

...Coolidge...

...Two freshly printed volumes, one a collection of papers hitherto unpublished and the other virtually a bibliography, even seem to prove that the man's reputation is growing...

...Nevertheless they may easily come to be the recipients of a lot of incense which is mere dishonest camouflage and which signifies a decadent academic morale...

...IN VIEW of the rising tide of fundamentalism in the Protestant churches of America, it is important to note that a certain number of priests in the Roman Catholic Church have conducted important researches in various branches of natural science without interference from the ecclesiastical authorities...

...Still one is glad to find ideas penetrating even into the most unlikely corners, and hence congratulates Dr...

...He can then ask himself whether the antics of Sunday and of our two revival headliners, Aimee and Uldine, may not bear about the same relation to genuine religion as the joss-sticks of Taoism to the doctrines of the imperturbable Gautama...

...Today what was merely whimsical and autocratic in Huysmans's temperament is accepted with something of the same generous good humor that qualifies reminiscence of Doctor Johnson, and the great virtues of the man's apostolate remain impressive...

...Just now, when the fashion that governs such things is prescribing large animals as household pets who are not always as distinguishable from wolves either in appearance or behavior as a timid neighbor might wish, and the boast of whose owners Is that they are "one-man dogs," does not strike us as the perfect moment for objecting to regulations that are designed for the protection of human beings,^ and more especially children, against a sudden reversion to original instinct...

...We now recognize also that the record of his conversion, though wholly subjective in character, is a genuine description of how the light of the Faith, breaking into a heart that has been content with darkness, is almost blindingly glorious...

...If this be a burden, let us remember that many upon whom it will fall think of college life in the same terms as they think of a yacht club or a summer resort...

...1 HE triumph of Colonel Lindbergh as an air-pilot, following so closely upon the successes of Captain Amundsen, has naturally led to talk of Norse blood and Viking bravery...

...The religion of Elmer Gantry and Sharon Falconer must sooner or later make all thinking people feel ashamed to call themselves 'Christians.' " The Chinese dean has made his point and no one will begrudge it him, in spite of an amused smile inevitable at finding Mr...

...The feeling aroused by the discussion grew so warm that a certain Benjamin F. Earle of Quincy is reported to have made the sporting offer to allow himself to be bitten by a dog reputed mad in order to prove that doctors and veterinarians are all In the wrong...

...This insists, first of all, upon agrarian relief of a sort that really seems intelligent and promising, even if the details have not yet been made clear and all slips between theory and practice have not been allowed for...

...Nevertheless his memory has been reverenced particularly in the North, because of his activity there during a time nearly contemporary with that described In the Undset novels...

...Lowden advocates a Federal Farm Board authorized to organize and supervise cooperative marketing...

...In other words, raise tuition fees...

...These involve practical experience, much rugged common sense, and a certain indispensable element of conservatism...

...J. J. Walsh...

...Huysmans has done incalculable good...

...WE H A V E said that the current practice of seeking gifts above all else makes the institution more subservient to givers than ought to be the case...

...Porter's speculation to see in the large number of dog lovers who always resent regulations designed to sacrifice the comfort and liberty of their dumb companions for the sake of the unbitten community a rather refracted view of values...

...The Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, so we are told in a despatch in the usually wellinformed Osservatore Romano, is considering measures of expulsion from Canada against immigrants from Europe admitted on the understanding that they were to "go upon the land," so soon as they show signs of preferring other methods of making a livelihood...

...In general, the opinions of wealthy and successful men are not harmful to the college...

...Father McEnery...

...According to the report of men who went to Rome when he was Pope, he had never any business, however important, to settle with other people but he would break it off to speak with the Norsemen who desired to see him...

...the balance is supplied by the income from endowments and by available gifts...

...M R . R O C K E F E L L E R indicates one method of escape...

...After some time he returned to the South with many friendly presents, and declared ever afterward that he was the greatest friend of the people of Norway...

...This campaign injures scholastic enterprise in three ways: it makes wealthy donors, normally unfamiliar with the business of education, assume an importance to which they are not genuinely entitled...

...John D, Rockefeller, Jr., wisely drew attention to the financial lasso with which many institutions of higher learning have practically been strangled...

...and alludes to the circumstance that he has "actually dedicated" one of his books—Men of the Old Stone Age—to two priests, Abbe Breuil and Father Obermaier...

...THE department," we are told, "has noted that the greater part of these immigrants bluntly refuse to take up farming at all, and look for jobs upon such things as railroad construction, this even when the railroad companies have granted them reduced fares on the understanding that they should go to work upon the soil...

...No other modern writer has treated liturgy so feelingly, luminously...

...It is not supporting Mr...

...Lowden has still others up his sleeve...

...Sinclair Lewis's Corona indicated as the engine predestined from all time to deal the coup de grace to belief...

...Hu Shih, dean of Peking National University, In the current number of the religiously minded Forum, giving release to a little of the resentment natural to a patriotic citizen of the celestial republic just now, by pointing out certain flaws and disreputable features In popular religion as practised in America which convince him that missionaries to his own country would be better employed at home helping pump the leaky structure...

...Lacking precise information upon farm conditions in the more remote districts of Canada in this year of grace, we are not in a position to say how far these recalcitrant peasants from Europe are guilty of breach of contract...

...Shortly after Cardinal Breakspeare's return to Rome," our informant remarks, "and largely on account of his success in the North, he was elected to the Papacy...

...George G. BIgelow, who is State Commissioner of Public Health, drew attention to this twisted mentality and read an article from the Shepherd Dog (apparently an organ devoted to kennel interests) which was in effect a plea against any precautions at all...

...It is well to remember such simple and salutary details, too easily overlooked by students of history...

...they were still too close to his sins to feel convinced of his virtue...

...Agrarian relief is a strong card, but Mr...

...I N S P E A K I N G at Brown University, Mr...

...Though much he said about the Cathedral of Chartres is now repudiated by ecclesiastical science, the book retains its power to reveal the purpose and spirit of the magnificent mystical structure...

...and it seldom leaves the school time to grow inwardly at anything like the same pace at which it develops outwardly...

...This, he maintains, would not involve price-fixing, but would, by designating how the surplus might be controlled, remedy the present chaotic situation in which the farmer is actually penalized for raising a bumper crop...

...Let the student pay a larger share of what it costs to educate him...

...Consequently the institutions must conduct a never-ceasing campaign for funds to meet current expenses...

...but the third-term theme is a reliable recipe for eloquence...

...Many facts regarding this activity are set forth in an article recently contributed to The Living Church by Reverend Albert NIcolay Gllbertson...

...Shih, sarcastically, "It is a strange sight, indeed, to see Billy Sunday and Aimee McPherson hailed and pat ronlzed in an age whose acknowledged prophets are Darwin and Pasteur...

...The naivete of the observation that these priests were not interfered with by their ecclesiastical superiors is quite in keeping with the ignorance of the contributions of Catholic churchmen to science which prevails outside our body—indeed, it is to be feared, inside it, too...

...Of him the great Icelandic historian of the thirteenth century, Snorri Sturluson, wrote in his Sagas of the' Kings of Norway: 'There never came a foreigner to Norway whom all men respected so highly, or who could govern the people so well as he did...

...Nicholas, cardinal and bishop of Albano, came to place the country directly under Rome, thus conceding to it a dignity equal to that possessed by the other realms of Christendom...

...Worthy poor students may then be taken care of through scholarships—the only sensible way out of the tangle...

...But with some knowledge of the inducements held out by immigration agents, and their average relation to reality, we incline to think not...

...Prior to that time, the Norwegian Church had been under the rule of a foreign hierarchy...

...They smarted too keenly from brushes with his vitriolic bristles to concede that he had earned the virtue of charity...

...But when one confronts the news of college commencements in which the first place is occupied by doctorates conferred honoris causa upon a series of aldermen and sausage manufacturers, one can guess fairly accurately that the explanation is not really service but "contributions...

...Students in attendance at privately conducted colleges and universities actually pay a little less than half of what it costs to educate them...

...An Industrialized society that believes it can be fed indefinitely upon what might be termed vocational lines is due for a series of unpleasant surprises...

...But even these cannot, in the long run, count upon the readiness of heavily taxed commonwealths to raise huge sums...

...The Lowden for President Association, Inc.," announces to New Yorkers that the doughty ex-governor is looking for some Atlantic seaboard support in his designs upon the presidential nomination...

...It is interesting to see, coming from a quarter whence it would be least expected, a tendency to revert to what looks very like a system of serfdom "new style...

...No books reveal more clearly the renascent power of Catholicism in the Norse countries, or draw more appealing attention to the relations between English-speaking peoples and the Scandinavians...

...The editorial further, in rather patronizing language, remarks on the fact that Professor Osborne of the Natural History Museum in New York has, in a recent article in The Forum, named a dozen priests who have done great service in prehistoric archaeology...

...Thus reads the leading scientific paper in Great Britain— Nature—in a leaderette based on an article by Dr...

...At a hearing held recently at Boston upon safeguards against the communication of rabies, Dr...

...I T A P P E A R S that the year 1152 Is referred to In Norwegian saga and legend as "the year in which Nicholas the Cardinal came to Norway...

...The archbishop he consecrated had jurisdiction also over Iceland, Greenland and many islands round about England and Scotland...

...There is no doubt that whatever trout-fishing in the Black Hills may do to aid the President's cause, the fish themselves cannot be induced to overlook altogether the fact that he has seen two terms in office...

...Such degrees have meaning only when they assert that the individuals honored have done work outside of college which is to some extent equivalent to good work done inside of college...

...Meantime the attention of the Doctor, presumably a man of erudition and versed in the study of popular religious aberrations, need only be invited, when things have quieted down a bit, to certain strange contrasts observable in his own country...

...Should they still care for it at a higher figure, the institutions they patronize will, at least, not be pauperized by them...

...I H E vivid and colorful author who used the penname of O. Henry once wrote a detective story, the basis of which was a theory, apparently his own, that the man who is over-considerate of the feelings of dogs and horses is likely to be less than considerate of those of human beings...

...Almost at the same time there appears the less sensational but equally important news that Sigrid Undset's trilogy of mediaeval life, which the whole literary world acclaims one of the masterpieces of our era, has been issued in a new* popular American edition...

...To us born heathens," says Dr...

...it creates an atmosphere of advertising which attracts to the campus hordes of the same kind of unfit as swarm to parades in honor of celebrities...

...HISTORIANS of the liberal school, a group neither so numerous nor so complacent as was the case forty or fifty years ago, seldom failed, when they wished to draw the approved picture of the middle-ages as an epoch of • darkness and depressed human rights, to make some mention of the large class known to law as "adscripti glebae," in other words, tillers of the soil, who were bound to pursue their hereditary vocation regardless of any personal likes or dislikes for dirt farming...

...1 HE twentieth anniversary of the death of Joris Karl Huysmans has been observed in Paris and elsewhere with an acclaim which proves that the man who brought a style developed in the school of naturalism to the Church through the door of conversion has not been forgotten...

...He will continue to do more...

...The point may be glimpsed by considering very carefully the lists of honorary degrees conferred during the year...

...If he can return with a satisfactory solution of the farm problem in his pocket, the Lowden insurrection may be smothered In a Coolidge boom...

...It will be remembered that Pope Adrian VI (Nicholas Breakspeare) is the only Englishman in the long list of those who have ruled the Church as Popes...

...We believe the Canadian difficulty is only a premonitory symptom of a problem with which generations unborn (we like to think they will not be ours) are pretty sure to find themselves presented...

...Rockefeller is not blind to the circumstance that such a decision on the part of private institutions might have the effect of sending more applicants to state schools...

...Having summoned the strength of the Middle-West, where Republicanism is a tradition, he is in a position to announce a program of salvation...

...Furthermore—and this is a matter of some moment—what is the value of honors through which even the unsophisticated can see without the aid of any artificial light...

...Often enough an industrial magnate or a banker serves the community in ways that deserve recognition...

...On the subject of anti-imperialism he is not very convincing, in view of the fact that the Coolidge administration has obviously not been very imperialistic...

...CHRISTIANITY has been often advised that it Is "fighting its last battle...