Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after decade, he cheerfully offered priceless instruction which only a yearly handful of students could appreciate, until not so long before the end, the value of his subject came to be generally recognized. While his competence really covered the whole field, his more special interest lay in Old French, Anglo-Norman, and the French element in English. On the two latter subjects the learned world awaited from him definitive treatises which death forestalled...
English educators have expressed disappointment over the steady decline in American enrolment at Oxford, since Englishmen in general have hoped that Anglo-American amity might be further developed through the presence of large numbers of Americans in British universities...
...years ago sensation articles began to appear in your journal. Later came an outrageous attack upon the priests' convention (the Anglo-Catholic Congress) at Philadelphia. The articles were absurd, silly and malicious; they stopped short of libel...
...Christian bodies which are decended from the Reformation of the 16th Century." While the Episcopal Church recognizes but two sacraments, the Catholic Episcopalians insist upon seven-the seven-pointed lights in the seven-branched candlestick of Rome. Confession is obligatory. Stoups for Holy Water have recently been installed in Anglo-Catholic parishes in Manhattan. Holy communion is spoken of as "mass"; indeed, a "Solemn High Mass" was the phrase with which an official handbook described the service for which the members of the congress gathered upon the second day of their meeting. It was aptly chosen...
...Reverend Dr. E. Clowes Chorley, Historiographer of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meditated on the possibility of the Anglo-Catholics going over to Rome. Wrote he, reporting the congress for the New York Herald Tribune: " 'What are the fundamental difficulties in the way of reunion with Rome?' I asked [a fellow divine]. The answer was: 'There are but two-the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope.' The Catholics of the Episcopal Church are willing to render obedience to the Pope as the chief of bishops; they balk at infallibility...