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Loomis School's Nathaniel Batchelder, 69, stiff-backed headmaster of the Connecticut boys' school. Harvardman Batchelder helped plan the school which five childless members of Connecticut's Loomis family (merchants, lawyers, teachers, divines) decided to found so "that some good may come to posterity through the harvest...
Without Impediment. "Anyone who writes Latin poetry at the age of twelve is bound to end up doing something like translating the Bible," said a Knox acquaintance recently. From his Eton days, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, now 60, has been noted for his witty, agile mind. The sixth child of the...
The first Lambeth Conference, called in 1867 at the suggestion of the Canadian church, alarmed conservative Anglicans, who feared that the assembled divines would lay down some ecclesiastical laws. But Lambeth Conferences have never been anything but consultative; the resolutions passed are not binding on the churches. But the moral...
TIME'S unwritten and unwritable definition of news is more inclusive than some. In the U.S. newspapers of 1923, religious news, for instance, consisted mainly of short quotations from the sermons of the worthier divines, drowned out by the noisier fulminations of their more sensational competitors. Said TIME'...
Most reporters report in one dimension, achieving at best the dramatic surface of a mural or a movie. Rebecca West reports in depth-a depth whose winding recesses of character, situation and context she divines by the play of unusually acute instincts and intuitions guided by an eye for significant...