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 Vol. 011 Issue 005 (December 4 1929)
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Vol. 011 Issue 006 (December 11 1929)
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Vol. 011 Issue 007 (December 18 1929)
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 The Year within the Year
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THE YEAR WITHIN THE YEAR AS WE write, the First Sunday in Advent is still to come, but as you read, Advent will be well on its way toward Christmas. For this journal, like all weekly papers, is...
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Week by Week
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WEEK BY WEEK Mr. Hoover Addresses Congress THE PRESIDENT'S message supplied its Capitol audience with a fairly learned dissertation on the problems confronting federal authority. Interesting by...
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Needles in a Haystack
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NEEDLES IN A HAYSTACK THERE is a good deal of interesting talk about museums in the current Atlantic Monthly, and with the conclusions which it proposes we have more than a little sympathy. Art is...
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America and the Aged
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Hayes, Carlton J. H.
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AMERICA AND THE AGED By CARLTON J. H. HAYES Last week Mr. Abraham Epstein sketched the dimensions of the old-age problem in the United States. Pertinent evaluation of what has and can be done is...
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The Old Guard Passes
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jr., William C. Murphy
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THE OLD GUARD PASSES By WILLIAM C. MURPHY, jr. NEARLY always there is an element of sadness in the overthrow of a ruling caste, even when its fate is richly deserved. One may have no sympathy with...
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The Methods of Mr. Barnes
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Gillis, James M.
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THE METHODS OF MR. BARNES By JAMES M. GILLIS IT WOULD require an intellectual gymnast, and an extraordinarily nimble one at that, to review Mr. Harry Elmer Barnes's latest book, The Twilight of...
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Shepherd of Shepherds (verse)
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Brunini, John Gilland
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Shepherd of Shepherds This minor mystery of the winter morn, This star, this silver light that leads To Bethlehem, this earthward trail of God man-born, O shepherds see! See not the ultimate...
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Can There Be Religious Peace?
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Rothwell, Bernard J.
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CAN THERE BE RELIGIOUS PEACE ? By BERNARD J. ROTHWELL Recent editorial comment drew the attention of Commonweal readers to the discussion of religious misrepresentations which was sponsored in...
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The Crèche (verse)
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Brink, Carol Ryrie
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The Creche Gabriel had gathered moss, Justine a tiny tree, Franqoise patted out the sand Where Jean Baptiste could see. They built the little stable up And hung the golden star, They set the...
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Green Sofa and Open Fire
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Sumner, Diana
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GREEN SOFA AND OPEN FIRE By DIANA SUMNER CHRISTMAS Eve. The four were together again. The boy back from Yale, the girl from a country boarding school near Boston. They all liked being together and...
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Delayed Letter (verse)
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Welch, Marie de L.
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Delayed Letter I promised to write on my way between there and here, But for twelve days I, who am so well-friended, Was lost to everyone, was unknowing and unknown; There were twelve days, my...
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The Play
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Skinner, Richard Dana
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THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Concerning Sherlock Holmes THE current revival of Sherlock Holmes, with the seventy-four-year-old veteran, William Gillette, himself heading the cast, brings back...
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Winter Landscape (verse)
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Jesson, F. S.
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Winter Landscape He is not wise who will not see A planet's taut-drawn symmetry Or the hard logic of a tree. In him is only careless spring Who will not see the winter come In its own finished...
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Communications
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COMMUNICATIONS THE DESERT AND THE SOWN Bourbonnais, 111. TO the Editor:-The objection taken to the article of Mr. Day, The Desert and the Sown, in The Commonweal of October 2, by the Reverend T....
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Books
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Morton, David; Thompson, Charles Willis; Chase, Mary Ellen; Mitchell, Broadus; Lapp, John A.; Ross, J. Elliot
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BOOKS Discovering Wilson George Harvey, by Willis Fletcher Johnson. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. IT DOES not take all of Mr. Johnson's 436 pages to convince the reader that he...
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Vol. 011 Issue 008 (December 25 1929)
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