Word: canonizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...induct their presidents quietly, without public fanfare. In the refectory of Fordham University (New York), last week, an order from the Very Rev. Vlodimir Ledochowski, S.J., Superior General at Rome, was read at mealtime. Rev. William J. Duane, S.J., 63, having completed the six years in office permitted by canon law, got up from the head of the table and bowed to Rev. Aloysius G. Hogan, S.J., 37, who took his place. Next day Father Duane sailed for Rome. It is not expected that he will do any more educational work...
Died. William Archibald Spooner, 86, oldtime classics scholar at Oxford University, onetime honorable canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, editor of a once-famed text, The Histories of Tacitus, originator of "Spoonerisms"; at New College, Oxford. Typical "Spoonerisms...
Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean and examiner of the Sacred Roman Rota (Church law court) published the Vatican's first want advt. He needs a priest who has been graduated in canon law and theology, who knows French, who can typewrite...
...bronze and marble statue of Charles-Michel, Abbé de 1'Epée (1712-89), the man who codified the existing hand signs of his day, invented new ones and created the first intelligible means of communication for the deaf. He was a Roman Catholic priest, canon of the Cathedral of Troyes, son of Louis XIV's architect...
...joined his movement for a National Committee on Mental Hygiene? William Henry Welch, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould Schurman, Julia Clifford Lathrop. Twenty-two years ago this month 14 people, including zealous Mr. Beers, met at the New Haven home of Anson Phelps Stokes. Dr. Stokes now is canon of the Washington Cathedral, engaged in writing History of Universities from Their Origin to the Present Time. In 1908 he was the very active and increasingly powerful secretary of Yale University. With his hospitality Mr. Beers founded the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene, pioneer body, and became its secretary. Next...