The Gavelyte, December 1910

C}1;DA1t VILL.b.: COLLEGE. 205 Current Events. PROF. F. A. JURKAT, A. M. I chance to squabble over, and the pr s– ent indications are, that the squabble j will not be long in materializing. A year ago Columbia University I . Count Tols;oy an°swered _th_e defini– abolished inter-collegiate football. This j twn of~ ~emus as one who 1s incapable year it leads all Am rican Universities of defi~ition. Born. a count, Nature in the number of students There ma made him a peasant m fact. He served not be any connection bet.:Ve n the tw~ as a private soldier in the Crimean war, f t b t ·t I d th· t but spent the last twenty years of his ac s, u 1 sure y oes some mg o . th t th t · . f tb 11 hfe not only as the world's foremost e argumen a a wmnmg oo a . t d t d t h . 1 th b advocate oi universal peace, but even earn raws s u en s, w I e ea sence . f d · th CI of general non-resistance. In a coun- o one rives em away. ass games t h d d . ry w ere a wor may sen a man to were permitted, but had to be cancelled s·b . h I h d h b the Id t t fift I er1a, e as e t e government by ecause y cou no ge een men . . t t I M h . 1 th , pamphlet and mterv,ew, and no official ou o pay. eanw I e e season s . . d h th I b f k . 11 d ever touched him. Although Russia is recor s ows e usua num er o 1 e . . d d d d th d t d l supposed to be Christian, the average an woun e un er e ena ure ru es. . , . . I Russian peasants concept10n of rehg- ---o-- . I ion amounts only to a fetish, and he The past month has witnessed the .h b k ·th th t bl " h d h h I w o rea s w1 e es a 1s e c urc death of two noted personages, Mrs. . . . Edd and Count 'Iolsto . Mrs. Edd 11s supposed to be m league with S~tan. Y ? . . Y Tolstoy broke and was excommumcat- was the founder of Christian Science, I d b t th t d h. . . . . e , u e peasan s revere 1m as a which has been st1gmat1zed as neither f th T I t th f d f Ch · · . "fi h a er. o s oy was e oun er o a rist1an nor sc1ent1 c. For t e great- b f · t·t t· h" h ·t ·11 . . num er o ms I u 10ns w 1c I w1 er part cf her hfe she showed neither t k t· t I t . . . a e genera 10ns o comp e e. remarkable ab1hty nor gemus, but - - o-- about thirty-five years ago she took up It is reported that the Vatican has and systematized the theory of over- . come to an agreement with Spain, al– coming disease and pain by mental sug- 1 1 lowing the organization of the chu~ch gestion, an idea that comes i-nto vogue along the same lines which the Vatican about once every generation in some : fought so strenuously but unsuccessful- - part of the world or other. If we live 11}'.' in France. Five years makes a big forty years, we are pretty liable to see I difference. - - o-- another sect founded on the same idea. Congress met last week to pass the She succeede? !n collecting a tr~st fund ! necessary appropriation bills, draw of about a m1Ihon dollars, which her I their salaries, and incidentally, to listen 300,000 adherents will now have a to the President's message. LYRIC THE J:S.TRE ·Keith Vaude~ille Daily Matinee, all seats 25c. Evening IO to 50 cents.