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Catholic and Calvinist deputies joined forces against the Liberal and Socialist supporters of the Government, called the games "heathenish." One deputy hoped that the Netherlands would never again enter the Olympics in which, said he, "nothing worthy is done for the glory...
...history of the founding of Andover Seminary and attempted to point out the fact that the Visitors Board was endowed with the widest possible powers, that they "were to guard over the trust in every way, to see that it should always be administratered in accord with the original Calvinist intent of the foundation." The Visitors felt, he explained, that this provision gave them power to prevent the union with the Harvard Divinity School which the trustees had arranged...
Kossuth, a Protestant, was educated at the Calvinist college of Sarospatlak and at the Budapest University. Aged 19, he became steward to the Countess Sapáry, a position which he subsequently lost owing to a quarrel with that good lady, who vindictively charged him with stealing money to pay his gambling debts. Soon after this he became the representative of Count Hungárdy at the National Diet in Pressburg (dissolved...
...turned against everything that formerly he had held beloved. He, priest and friend of popes, conceived this singular notion-that the Catholic Church was secretly in league with the Free Masons. That turned him against the Church, and he announced that he was going to become a Protestant. A Calvinist congregation in Rome received the head of the Vatican Choir with some enthusiasm, but soon found embarrassment in Perosi's fantastic ideas. The Vatican understood that the unfortunate musician was mad. They did not depose him from his leadership of the Sistine Choir. The chief concern...