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Show AN EDITQR NODS. Few newspapers have a more erudite eru-dite or clever staff than has the good old Boston Transcript, and there are a few whose editorials are more widely wide-ly quoted. But it has one editorial writer whose erudition has not kept pace with his cleverness, or if it has he nodded sadly in a recent piece on "Is Spring a Misnomer." Recalling the fact that the method of determining the date of Easter was established by the Council of Nice in the year 325, his subsequent comment unmistakably shows that he believes that notable event took place at Nice, France. j But he is wrong. The Council of 325 was convened by the Emperor Constantino at Nice (or Nicaea) in Asia Minor. The principal question before the Council was whether God and Jesus Christ are of the same essence, and its decision was in the ' affirmative.' Arius of Alexandria and i his followers maintained that there is a difference between the Father and the Son, the latter being in a ; sense secondary. . j Our editorial brother of the Tran-; script appears to have his history on straight, but in the instance cited his 1 geography is off some 1,590 miles. |