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...treatise on the subject of the disappearance of the American racial stock written by Professor R. H. Johnson of the University of Pittsburgh asserts that 73 per cent of male college graduates eventually get married while only 48 per cent of feminine graduate scholars are led to the altar...
...marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke first the brave Dr. Arthur Kinsolving (Episcopalian) of Baltimore, onetime rector in the New York Diocese where the Duke was wedded. "That girl was a happy and radiant bride when she went to the altar," said he, referring to the recent testimony of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Consuelo's mother, that she, Mrs. Belmont, coerced her daughter. "I know some of the Vanderbilts personally. . . . There was no hint from any quarter that the bride was under compulsion." Later, amid applause of the Church...
Tradition is about to be violated on the opposite side of Holyoke Street, where Dunster House and the old Advocate House are to come down, sacrificed on the altar of the tutoring schools. The Manter Hall School, successor to "Widow" Nolen, is to build a new home on will return to the new building, while The Advocate and the Dramatic Club, or phans of the storm, have already moved to Didgely Annex, in the rear of Ridgely Hall...
...earthly lover; Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, the Warrior who dares to violate the sanctity of the Temple; Basso Ezio Pinza the Pontiff Maximus brought by the infuriated mob to condemn the guilty priestess to a living death. He will strip her of her white robe, leave it on the altar and cover her with a black one, blacker than any sin. Margarete Matzenauer will be the Goddess Vesta, she who sends her lightning bolt to rekindle the holy fire, she who herself forgives La Vestale before a marriage gay with singing and dancing...
...here Bishop William Walter Webb of Milwaukee welcomed his brethren to the diocese in which "the first attempt at a religious order for men in the English Church after the Reformation was made"; the diocese which contains some of Anglo-Catholicism's earliest relics- the first stone altar, the first rood screen, a cloth-of-gold altar-cloth; the U. S. diocese in which high-church feeling is today most concentrated...