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IssueVol. 008 Issue 005 (June 6 1928)
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IssueVol. 008 Issue 008 (June 27 1928)
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Paid articleThe Cloak Thrown Round
198 THE COMMONWEAL June 27, 1928 can a "crowd" mean excepting so and so many individuals ? Acquaintance with and interest in civic affairs are obviously very good things, provided one...
Paid articleWeek by Week
WEEK BY WEEK HP HAT last week's talk regarding Mexico was based ¦^ upon actual tendencies rather than upon insubstantial rumors is now evident, but the progress of events emphasizes the...
Paid articleFeeling the Draft
FEELING THE DRAFT A T THE time these lines are being written, the •**• "draft Coolidge" movement shows every sign of having died a death beyond any prospect of resurrection, and one of the...
Paid articleThe Hoover Convention
Thompson, Charles Willis
June 27, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 203 THE HOOVER CONVENTION By CHARLES WILLIS THOMPSON THE Hoover convention was in fact the second Coolidge convention, counting 1924 as the first. In both his...
Paid articleCriticizing Educators
Lawres, Irving A. J.
CRITICIZING EDUCATORS By IRVING A. J. LAWRES NEWMAN as a typical Oxonian was an educator perhaps as much as theologian. His essays on education, according to a recent biographer, "would...
Paid articleThe School Histories Controversy
O'Sheel, Shaemas
2O8 THE COMMONWEAL June 27, 1928 THE SCHOOL HISTORIES CONTROVERSY By SHAEMAS O'SHEEL A FEW months ago the Chicago Board of Education removed William McAndrew from the post of...
Paid articleMatin (verse)
Hall, Amanda Benjamin
On such a morning of good-will, When thoughts and pigeons fly, I lean along a golden sill And compliment the sky, So clear, so excellently blue, It clarifies all things! Now I am re-created...
Paid articleChannels of Grace
Williams, Michael
June 27, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 211 CHANNELS OF GRACE By MICHAEL WILLIAMS IT IS a device of a rather shoddy and old-fashioned romanticism to associate the moods and changing aspects of nature...
Paid articleNext to Godliness
Mulhern, Alice Wade
NEXT TO GODLINESS By ALICE WADE MULHERN WITH each year at Saint Genevieve's new privileges came to us as tribute to the birthday passed. When we became ten, for instance, we were given two...
Paid articleAbandoned (verse)
Coates, Grace Stone
^Abandoned Once the footworn, white-scrubbed floor Knew no lint behind the door; Corners hid no grey fluff-flecked Token of neglect. Ordered rugs and beds precise Told of skill and system...
Paid articlePoems
Maynard, Theodore; Sargent, Daniel; Conkling, Grace Hazard; Davidson, Gustav; Ritter, Margaret Tod; Hayes, James Lewis
2l6 THE COMMONWEAL June 27, 1928 POEMS Withdrawal Let me drive hence All sullen care and turbulence: These muddy the spirit crystal-cool: Anger with fools but makes another fool. Quiet...
Paid articleThe Play
Skinner, R. Dana
June 27, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 217 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Diplomacy NOT long ago, a gentleman of some literary achievement privately vented his spleen against the theatre somewhat as...
Paid articleCommunications
COMMUNICATIONS THE LAY PULPIT Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:—May I compliment you on your editorial article, the Lay Pulpit, of June 6? The Commonweal since its beginning has stood for the...
Paid articleBooks
Cresson, W. P.; Repplier, Agnes; Robinson, Henry Morton; Shuster, George N.; Chase, Mary Ellen; Canisius, Sister Mary; Walsh, Thomas; Ross, J. Elliot
BOOKS The American Balkans Nicaragua and the United States, 1909-1927, by Isaac Joslin Cox. World Peace Foundation Pamphlets. A CLEVER young pamphleteer once described the Caribbean...
Paid articleThe Quiet Corner
THE QUIET CORNER / counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.—C. Lamb. Like Young Lochinvar, although in his later years, Britannicus had just "come out of the West," and the effete...
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