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The President's Message APRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE to Congress has the twofold purpose of analyzing the state of the nation and of furnishing a stimulus and policy for action. The stimulus President...
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Henri Bergson By RAISSA MARITAIN HENRI BERGSON has just died in Paris at the age of 81. All those who are in his debt for some benefit of the spirit—and the number of these is great both in France...
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Whilst We Have Time A few reflections on the peril in which we find ourselves. By George N. Shuster I HAVE THOUGHT it-might do no harm to set down a few reflections on the peril in which we find...
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Patience Not hers the flower's ignorant withering For the fruit's sake, nor the blank delight Of embryonic tumbling, the blind fling Before the straining toward a larger night: Such waiting has...
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Education Without Culture The prevailing education's career of ruin is traced with a threatening clarity. By Walter Lippmann* I T WAS ONCE the custom in the great universities to propound a...
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M R. PATRICK SCANLAN'S attempt in the Brooklyn Tablet to put Mr. George Shuster in his proper place was not read by me until after my attention had been called to the high merits of Mr. Scanlan as...
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January 17, 194! THE COMMONWEAL 327 Communications CAN WE JUSTIFY NEUTRALITY? Ottawa, Canada. TO the Editors: I have been following with much interest the discussion of Mr. Agar's letter, "Can we...
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The Stage & Screen Flight to the West THE SENTIMENTS expressed in Elmer Rice's latest play are praiseworthy, the acting excellent, the staging effective. Moreover the theme is up to the...
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Ten—and One to Carry W HILE the bell is still tolling for 1940, it might be well to give a hasty look back—principally because you know where you stand with your reviewer when you know what he...
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Books of the Week Money Doctors Monetary Proposals for Social Reform. Margaret G. Myers. Columbia. $2.25. THERE is a type of approach to economic problems which hinges on the first, most...
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:334 THE COMMONWEAL January 17, 1941 The Inner Forum THE Catholic Bureau of Inter-American Collaboration of Pax Romana, international Catholic student federation, has announced that 18 Catholic...
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Vol. 033 Issue 011 (January 1 1941)
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