Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church from the King and Queen of England in remembrance of the Sunday last June when they worshipped there with Mr. Roosevelt. Lacking an appropriate passage in the prayer book of the U. S. Episcopal Church, the Reverend Frank R. Wilson read from an English Book of Common Prayer: "O Lord, most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold Thy most gracious sovereign, Lord, King George. . . . Strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies, and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." Later...
...away from union with Sweden, electing the Danish "Sailor Prince" Karl to become King of Norway as Haakon VII, and for many years afterward Swedish resentment over this remained keen. Thus in 1914, when Gustaf V asked the Scandinavian sovereigns to meet him at Malmo, Sweden, to adopt a common policy in the face of World War I, His Majesty was careful to buss the King of Norway on only one cheek and lightly, kissed the King of Denmark heartily on both cheeks. In the much greater emergency of World War II last week, Swedes were happy to see Gustaf...
Lawrence, after vainly attempting to set up a cult of his own, established some sort of mystical communion with the cow, Susan, about whom he wrote what the lay mind cannot consider better than gibberish. Professor Tindall brings an uncompromising realism and common-sense to his subject, although he occasionally lapses into something like sympathy. Not that there can ever be true sympathy between a Mozartian on the one hand and a Wagnerite like Lawrence on the other! This is Professor Tindall's second study of a literary figure for whom he has no real liking (Bunyan was the first...
Inter-House debating will formally open its 1939-1940 season Tuesday evening, when the various teams will meet in the House common rooms to treat the subject, "Resolved: That Congress Should Discharge the Dies Committee...
...response to increasing demands of the University's camera enthusiasts, an Upperclass Photography Club has been organized, and the first meeting will be held at 8 o'clock Monday night in the Eliot House Junior Common Room...