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...change in location and season made little difference in the reception of ancient class parts. The Ivy Oration, by Joseph C. Scott, was greeted with applause and laughter from the "Classmatibus hic haec hoc anno domini c pluribus unum veritas ad infinitum hocus pocus salutem" at the beginning, to the imitation of a History I professor who declared at the end, that "the chaos to which we are now subjected is like the screechings and scratching of a great orchestra, which is in reality but tuning up to play a great triumphal march-the Overture in Africa-and the Finale...
Never has Jesus been so potent in the affairs of men as in the past 14 decades. The years from Anno Domini 1800 to Annum Domini 1940 have been the period in which he has moulded mankind as never before. This flat statement, a shock to many who have long accepted the glib belief that "the world is drifting away from Christianity," was not made by an ignoramus. It was made by Kenneth Scott Latourette. Professor of Missions and Oriental History at Yale University. Three years ago Dr. Latourette started writing a monumental six-volume History of the Expansion...
Long ago, when a hunchbacked Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), grandfather of Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, introduced German culture to Berlin's ghettos the Enlightened Jews objected. For "Before Christ" they insisted on substituting "Before the Common Era," for "Anno Domini" the "Common Era." At the spectacle of the Aryans following Jewish example nearly 200 years later, Jewish rabbis chuckled in their beards...
Written entirely in Latin, the letter is addressed to "Illustrissimi Domini Professors Literarum Anglicarum Novi Mundi," which interpreted is "The most illustrious professors of English Literature of the New World," i.e. of American Literature...
Included on the program are: Two Motets and Two Psalms, by Sweelinck; "O Domini Jesu Christi", a Passion Motel for Men's Voices, by Josquin des Press and the first performance in Boston or Cambridge of Two Religious Songs, by Antonio de Cabezon or an unknown composer of sixteenth century Spain...