IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

I think the world wants Greek in the fullest sense moro to-day then ever it did. —Professor Gilbert Murray. , Bishops and deans are the only men who still keep to tho beautiful old seven-teenth-century dress.—Mrs. Inge. There are a large iinmber of people who construe work as filling a barrow artd then emptying it.—Mr. J. H. Thomas. To-day we are very much in the position of the" early Christians, faced by a frankly pagan world.—Dr. W. B. Selbie.

Cruelty, in its many forms, is the one detestable vice against which all the powers of good are in rebellion.—Si<r Oliver Lodge.

A nation's economic credit is like a woman's reputation—the more it is debated tho more it is endangered.—Sir Josiah Stamp. Modern man mav not label himself Christian, but I believe he is nearer to Christ than were most of his forefathers. — Mr. Warwick Deeping.

Bullying, I hope, such bullying as is described in " Tom Brown's Schooldays," is pretty well extinct in English public schools.—Bishop Woldon. * Tho House of Commons—tho mother of all Parliaments —is stronger than any individual or any party. It- is tho great assimilatrix of the world.—Earl of Birkenhead.

Cricketers are a great republic in which neither birth nor wealth give advantage, whero tho lowliest among us can attain, by excellence, the highest position.—Lord Harris.

I am what I am, not out of persona] virtue, but because all my life has been spent in the training ground of corporate bodies. I am merely the product of the work of hundreds of thousands of unknown names.—Rt. Hon. Margaret Bor.dfield, M.P.