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...nation which has celebrated its 400th anniversary and which proudly calls Bogota, its leading city, "the Athens of America," inaugurated a new-old President last week. He was scholarly, able Dr. Alfonso López, President during 1934-38, now returning to office after the four-year interval decreed by a constitutional nonsuccession clause...
...Luther of Medicine," who violently attacked the authority of Galen, was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. He was born in Switzerland in 1493. (Last week in Manhattan the New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed...
...Pope Paul III on Sept. 27, 1540. The Jesuits have been a zealous, well-disciplined unit of the church militant ever since. "Today," began the leading editorial of last fortnight's New World, official weekly of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, "the whole Christian world celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Jesuits, the Panzer units in the Army of Christ...
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the confirmation of the Constitution of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola. To commemorate the event, Baltimore's Loyola College last week presented-for the first time in English-a play written by a Jesuit and first produced 331 years ago. The Cenodoxus of Jacob Bidermann, once a great hit, gradually dropped out of sight. But in recent years it has been brilliantly revived in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, Munich...
...York Rangers got what on their 400th hockey game...