Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual cruise of the Naval Science Department will start from Boston, June 21 for a two week's sail along the Eastern coast, and will include visits to Halifax, N. S., and Portland, Maine, according to the itinerary as announced yesterday by Commander R. C. Grady, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science. Probably about 40 members of the University unit will be on board in addition to detachments from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech. The trip will be made on the battleship Wyoming, the flagship of the U. S. Scouting Force...
...existence; principle all based upon the principle of permanence. But the encyclical also had a more specific effect; this was to dispose once more and perhaps finally of the plans for a union of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, much discussed in the Maline conversations sponsored by Viscount Halifax, long president of the English Church Union, and the late Cardinal Mercier...
...frail, delicate, serious, Lord Halifax could read in the encyclical the defeat of a lifetime's labor. It had been his idea, as it was the idea of many English high-churchmen and laymen, that the Church of England, which does not recognize itself as protestant in the sense for example of Lutheran, Methodist, or Presbyterian Churches, might be ready to amalgamate itself with the Roman Church. Certainly, for the last century, some members of the Anglican Church have tended more and more to recognize certain Roman Catholic tenets. At the Lambeth Conference, in 1920, English clergymen stated their willingness...
Recently Pope Pius refused Lord Halifax a private audience. His present encyclical, while it does not end the indubitable Anglican tendency toward Church Unity, leaves no hope that it can be reached through the means hitherto most emphasized...
...presence of the Congreve comedies, however, and of minor delicacies of the seventeenth century such as the pastoral ruminations of Cowley and the sundry writings of the Marquis of Halifax make English 50b not only informative but oftentimes entertaining. Professor Greenough, possessing a very human insight into what appears at time to be a mouldy enough age, is an excellent guide. With him the student may enjoy the brilliance of Restoration Comedy and even come to appreciate the state of mind which finds Dryden exhilarating...