Word: adventism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Evander Berry Wall 67, doyenne of U. S. expatriates in Paris; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo. With her husband, a well-known Beau Brummel of the Mauve Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark...
...Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them, a project dear for hundreds of years to the Popes and first Papal families like the Caetani. On the advent of Fascism, these plans and dreams were translated into action: the Caetani sold their lands to the State which has now reclaimed and built cities on them, and the 15th Duke retired to Canada, still Socialis tic but wealthy, urbane, unembittered...
...Chicago, George William Cardinal Mundelein directed his priests to give a course in marriage at low mass on Sundays during the ecclesiastical year which opened with the beginning of Advent last week. In a letter read from all Catholic pulpits Chicago's Archbishop said: "Marriage in olden days was a rather simple procedure. . . . How our present-day civilization and its laws have shattered these ideals! If any of you had dealt with this subject as long (15 years) and as intimately in thousands of individual cases, as patiently and sympathetically as I have tried to do, you would conclude...
...clear," Professor Perry remarks, "that James did not, like Hall, accept the experimental psychology of his day as marking the advent of the new era. This was clearly not what he was looking for! It is true that he had from the beginning, and never lost, a respect for facts. He distrusted speculation in vacuo, abstract dialectic, and learning from books. . . . But James felt, as we have seen, a growing distaste for experimental psychology owing to physical and temperamental reasons. He lacked the strength to spend long hours in a laboratory; a recurrent lumbago prevented his standing, and trouble with...
...satisfy the aspirations of the younger. Hence the Union must embark on its youthful aims. We must hear more of the connections with the Cambridge Central Labor Union and with kindred associations. We must hear more of self-education for the members, and of erecting bulwarks against the possible advent of such evils as Fascism. Otherwise the Cambridge Union of University Teachers has no reason for existence...