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...Rome University's august Aula Magna (Great Hall), eleven spotlights probed the platform where Socialist leaders fretfully shuffled back & forth under a huge wooden banner of a hammer and sickle and book (the Italian Socialist emblem). Delegates, observers and guests, filling the unheated auditorium to capacity, shivered in their overcoats. Pietro Nenni sat snugly at the rear of the platform, carefully concealed from view by a bowl of bright red carnations...
During a Roman heat wave, Italy's Socialists sweated out fusion in the imposing Aula Magna of the Collegio Romano. There hundreds of Socialists gathered for their first Congress since Mussolini suppressed their party...
...told and retold, has haunted the hearts and minds of men: the story of Jesus. Its source material is seed-small: the four Gospels, the New Testament apocrypha, the histories of Josephus, the pseudepigrapha.* Yet its literature is enormous. In Chautauqua, N. Y., famed cultural and religious resort, an Aula Christi (Hall of Christ) contains some 2,000 biographies and critical studies of Him.† Not only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman Catholic, lavished Latin enthusiasm on Jesus...
...reapse saltatrix Romana esse. Et qui partes senum agunt, re vera ad similitudinem accedunt, baculis suis innituntur, barbas suas permulcent; qui partes invenum agunt, maxime iuveniles esse videntur--fervidi, ebriost, prodigi. Practerea enm personas et omne proscaenium theatre Romano simillimum spectabitis ac tibias audietis, putabitis ves non Cantabrigiae in Aula Memoriae sedere sed Romae ipso saecule ultimo ante Christum natum esse et veram Plauti comoediam ante oculos habere...
...lectures were delivered before the university in the Aula and were attended by both students and professors. At the third lecture the Grand-Duke of Saxe Weimar was present in his official capacity as rector of the university. It was at his suggestion that the arrangement was made with the Prussian ministry of education by which the Harvard professor was to visit Jena, as an acknowledgement of the visit to America of Professor Eucken, who is a member of the philosophical faculty of Jena. It is the first time that an American exchange professor has served officially at any German...