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Several sections of the Dark Convent have been investigated under the superintendance of Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory; Hanover, Johannesbury, and Bloemfontein have all been found favorable for stellar observations. The last-site mentioned is on the whole the best of the three, according to the authorities, and will probably be selected...
...FACE OF SILENCE - Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Dutton ($2). Legend of a Calcutta convent, by a westernized Hindu...
...reported that Senator Borah was interested in tracing his ancestry to Martin Luther's wife's family. To TIME's Political Editor a mild reprimand for his ignorance of Church history. Katharina von Bora was, indeed, a fine woman. According to McGiffert,- she escaped from a convent, by the aid of Luther, who endeavored to secure a husband for her, upon which she intimated, anticipating Priscilla Mullins, that she would prefer Luther himself...
...Grace, the Archbishop of San Francisco, Edward J. Hanna (Roman Catholic), was host recently at a luncheon held in a San Francisco convent, to Protestant and Jewish leaders of the city, on behalf of the city's Community Chest. Prominent religious leaders present included Rabbi Jacob Nieto, Bishop Edward L. Parsons of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Charles Wesley Burns of the Methodist Church and Chester Rowell, California progressive, former publisher of the Fresno (Calif.) Republican, all of whom spoke...
...Moved by religious vision at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago (TIME, June 28), Miss Marie A. Easby-Smith, 35, woman lawyer of Washington, D. C., renounced last week her profession and the world, to enter a Maryland convent. Miss Easby-Smith's priest advised her against the step, but she said to her father, simply: "I am going...