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...both sides of the Atlantic to scholars of all degrees as the author of Modern English Usage, most useful and authoritative of argument-settlers, and as an editor of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, he was so personally retiring, "so shadowy to the public that even at the Clarendon Press there were only two persons who had just once seen his face and heard his voice." This pamphlet-biography (60 pp.) by his life-long friend, George Gordon Coulton, is a little British masterpiece, a Goodbye, Mr. Chips come true...
England. King Henry II of England (1133-89) was a coarse, bull-necked man of capricious temper, with a talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...Conflicting Taxation." A special rate of $.50 for balcony seats has been made for students wishing to attend any of the five sessions. They will be asked to register their names and colleges at the balcony entrance. The sessions will be held in the Lee Auditorium at 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, on Tuesday, at 2 o'clock and 6.30 o'clock, and on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, 2.30 o'clock, and 3.15 o'clock...
...bolted, little knots of laymen and churchmen gathered whispering. No speeches were permitted in the election they were holding to fill the primacy of the Church of England in Canada. This lordship of 1,232,000 Anglicans had been vacant since the death last summer of Most Rev. Clarendon Lamb Worrell, Archbishop of Nova Scotia. Once held according to seniority, the Primacy became elective under a system by which Canada's 27 bishops and archbishops propose names to an electoral college...
Last week law officers of Clarendon, Va. telephoned Washington to find out whether the Attorney General wished to prosecute some captured gold hoarders: they had arrested 15 gypsies, found them to have $2,000 in gold. ''No prosecution," decided the Department of Justice, but the gypsies stayed in jail, charged with stealing $7,000 from a woman in Norfolk...