Word: anglicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papal thunder rumbled over Western Europe, set off sympathetic detonations. In Paris, the French Protestant Federation held a service, protested against Russian persecution. Present was Dr. Eulage, the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Paris. Grand Rabbi Israel Levy of France sent a representative. In London, the arch-Tory, arch-Anglican Morning Post conceded: "We shall not in this case complain if the Archbishop of Canterbury follows the lead of Rome...
...interesting resume of Harvard's eating customs which appears elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, the most relevant contribution is the fact that the "High Table" at one time proposed for the House Plan, would be merely a continuance of a Harvard tradition with only a slight twinge of anglican influence in its makeup. While the resurrection of the before-and-after-dinner "blessing" might prove rather amusing, the suggestion to perpetrate Harvard's past through the medium of the High Table, a purely British extraction despite its 300 years of acclimation, holds very little appeal...
...seven weeks, sometimes working for 22 hours at a stretch. Says Biographer May: "It has been proclaimed a classic?which means that it is one of those books' which people say they must read some time, and never read at all." No poet, Newman wrote (while still an Anglican) one of the most famed of English hymns, "Lead, Kindly Light." His prose was praised by Purist Walter Pater. One of his sermons Thomas Babington Macaulay knew by heart, and George Eliot could not quote it without tears...
...ideals of the American colleges, the moral benefits and the development of true sportsmanship, are almost universally the hopes and beliefs of their proponents rather than demonstrated proofs. Winning is what counts and the means does not, except as an added assurance to that end. Any pronounced leanings toward anglican customs are, justly or not, generally looked at askance in this country. The English idea that it is better to lose a well-played match than win a sloppy one is one transatlantic attitude that might stand a bit more importation...