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...lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus since 1917, but he has lived on Loch Ness for 50 years, still spends most of his time at the monastery...
Harold W. Danser, '37 heads the dance committee, which includes Walter J. Murphy '37, Wilson V. Ginger '38, Alfred Brenholts '38, Robert L. Brainard '39. Patronesses, headed by Mrs. James P. Baxter, include Mesdames Donald H. Wallace, Charles C. Abbot, and Charles H. Taylor...
Like Christianity, Buddhism includes many a sect. One of the more potent is the Jodo-shinshu sect, founded in Japan 700 years ago. Month ago in the Hompa Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, Abbot Otani, head of the sect, blessed a two-foot image of Lord Buddha, carved of wood and covered with eight layers of gold leaf. Last week an envoy of Abbot Otani arrived in San Francisco with the image, turned it over to Rinban, or Bishop, Kenju Masuyama, the Occidental-looking head of some 50,000 U. S. members of the Jodo-shinshu sect...
...seven monks of the monastery of Deir-el-Moharrak, on the edge of the desert near Assiut, rebelled because they received only $1.50 per month for pocket money. Bearded Auba Yoanes XIX, Patriarch of Egypt's ancient Coptic Church, excommunicated the seven, then pardoned them while their abbot raised their allowance to $7.50 per month. On this the monks grew merrier & merrier, saving up their money for uproarious nights in nearby Bedouin and Moslem villages. Such a nuisance became the Copts that the villagers told Abbot Sidarous to keep his men at home, else they would be shot...
Unimpressed by threats, the monks last week deposed Abbot Sidarous, elected from their midst a new abbot who would not only condone but join in their nights of fun. At once Patriarch Yoanes threatened to excommunicate all 100 monks, commanded them to vacate the monastery. They "sat down," and by the time a commission representing the Patriarch arrived, the monks had dug themselves in for a siege. Deir-el-Moharrak, 14 centuries old, has heavy 15-ft. walls, is accessible only by means of a drawbridge to an adjacent building. Within it are live cattle, fresh wells, well-stocked larders...