Word: comenius
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...jungles of Africa. Communicants poured into churches (standing instead of kneeling to receive their bread and wine, chiefly because the Catholics do it the other way). Of all the words uttered to mark the anniversary, none were more Moravian than those spoken by 17th century Moravian Bishop John Amos Comenius...
...winners include Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, for studies on educational psychology in the light of contemporary work on cognition-perception, learning, and thinking; Dimitri Cizevsky, lecture on Slavic, for studies of the philosophy of Comenius and Slavic baroque literature; Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Architecture, for studies of the abbey and Monastery at Cluny; Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for studies of the conflict of the concept of civil liberties and the doctrine of "reason of state...
When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, Dr. Joseph Hromadka, dean of the Jan Comenius Theological Faculty in Prague, was one of the few Christian leaders to cooperate with them. Since then, he has become one of Europe's rare spokesmen for the view that Christianity can get along under Communist regimes...
...first to use picture books in teaching children was Johann Amos Comenius, famed educator of the 17th Century, a radical in an age of musty pedantry. Last week in the Church ot Xarden. Holland, was found a skeleton believed...
...Educational Review for March contains four articles on Comenius; one of them by Professor Paul H. Hanus on "The Permanent Influence of Comenius...