Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides McKay and Holcombe, the speakers have included C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern Government, Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professor of Government, and Lincoln Gordon, Professor of Government and Administration at the Business School...
...rose garden of the White House last week a delegation of Greeks, thankful for U.S. aid to their country, came bearing gifts-an ancient urn, a native rug inscribed to XAPPT Z. TPOTMAN. The President was also in a mood of goodwill and generosity. He was busy last week bestowing little presidential favors on the Congress, in his campaign to save the Fair Deal. Many a Congressman was surprised and flattered to find the President of the United States on the telephone, calling for just a friendly chat...
...others before it in such respectable publications as the New York Times Magazine Section, was bringing sacks of letters to the headquarters of the Rosicrucians in San Jose, Calif. After receiving their free Sealed Book, some of the ad-answerers would go on to become members of AMORC (the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) and pay dues of $2.50 a month to learn "through alchemy, metaphysics and cosmology" how to be happy. But many a faithful U.S. Rosicrucian might be jolted by the picture of the San Jose order painted in a lawsuit filed by the widow of the cofounder...
...finance, according to Myra Kiimalehto, was at first administered jointly by Thor, her slight, pince-nezed Swedish immigrant husband, and ex-Methodist Harvey Spencer Lewis, former president of an "Institute for Psychical Research." Together they applied modern U.S. selling methods to a potpourri of lore derived from the ancient esoteric Rosicrucian cult which dates back beyond the isth Century. In 1928, the Lewis-Kiimalehto brand of Rosicrucianism found in San Jose a happy combination of favorable weather and favorable authorities. There Lewis incorporated it as a nonprofit organization, and settled down to be "Imperator of the Supreme Grand Lodge." Kiimalehto...
Last week one of Saga's five Buddhist priests watched the black-cassocked figure of his new friend, Father Itagura, descending the ancient steps of the Buddhist temple after a chatty afternoon visit. Though he may soon be without a flock, he was not bitter. "You see," he observed with true Buddhist detachment, "whether God says a thing or Buddha says it, it's still the same message. I only wish, and wish very strongly, that everyone may kneel with a beautiful heart before the altar...