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...name of the authors run a large gamut, one near to the game declared. In one lecture Byron, Wordsworth. Wackenroder, Hazlitt, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Herder, Rousseau, Goe-the and Voltaire clashed with St. Augustine, Confucius, Aristotle, St. Paul, Socrates, Dante, Plato and Marcus Aurelius, Sandwiched in between were Walter Lippman, Barry Elmer Barnes, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Picasso and John Livingston Lowes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lottery Gambling Enters Comp. Lit. 11 as Students Bet on Number of Authors Mentioned--High Mark so Far is 73 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Nanking loud Mrs. Chang Hsueh-liang was hospitably entertained by two of the famed "Soong Sisters," arbiters of Chinese society: Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, softspoken, Wellesley-educated wife of the president, and Mrs. H. H. Kung whose husband is the excessively aristocratic 75th descendant of Confucius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Yen, Zero, Chang, Reds | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Invisible Ruling House," Mr. T. A. Soong; to the younger sister of "China's Strongest War Lord," Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria. Other Soongs are the widow 'of Sainted Sun Yatsen, the wife of China's president, the wife of the last lineal descendant of Confucius, and Finance Minister T. V. Soong, "China's Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...this problem of government requires an approval and ratification of certain amendments by and in a convention and that the language of Article V can be taken as modified by the principles of political science." To buttress his views Judge Clark showered his opinion with nonlegal quotations from Confucius, Cicero, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Lord Bryce, Justice Holmes, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Montesquieu, William Howard Taft, Congressman Luce, Claude Bowers, Abbott Lawrence Lowell et al. He quoted a feeble joke from the Georgia Supreme Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: William Sprague Decision | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...Trung teaches that there are good and bad points in all religions. He has codified the "good" points of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity. Kao-dai is the Supreme God.* His demigods are Lao Tzu (reputed founder of Taoism), Buddha, Confucius, Jesus. A Kao-daist may thus pray in the name of his favorite demigod. Le-Van-Trung's personal demigod is Confucius. Symbol of Kao-daists is a large eye surrounded by clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kao-daism | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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