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...college years have come and gone; Fall, Winter and Spring have issued their round of invitations to "come out and play"; the varied life which makes of college something more than a hermit's cloister, has circulated all about these men, but has not touched them. Of their relation to the college it might be said: "They are in it but not of it." Mediaeval monks possessed all the knowledge of their day; yet the conviction is now widespread that their's was a terribly warped and limited existence, and not a pattern to be copied. It would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN OR SHADOWS--WHICH? | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

After quoting many examples of Sanskrit poetical literature, Professor Lanman described how the life of a Brahman is divided into four phases: first, the "Walk with God" or life as a student; second, the support of a family; third, the life of a forest hermit; fourth, the renunciation of the World. Karma (meaning "deed") was defined as inherited tendency, derived from some former existence, and Transmigration, as viewed by Brahman philosophy, was described as birth after birth until the Karma becomes sterile and unable to reproduce. In each successive existence, the bodily form has a relation to the previous existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANMAN TELLS OF BRAHMAN DOCTRINE OF TRANSMIGRATION | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

Percy Hammond-"Miss Billie Burke was never more enchanting than she was as the irresponsible Annabelle who married a hermit because his whiskers tickled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 17, 1924 | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

Among the pictures were: Tiger Dodging Rainbow-colored Buckshot, Starling Hermit Baying at the Moon, A Saint with an Ulcerated Tooth, Adam and Eve (Adam looked like a lemon), Husband Splitting His Wife's Head with Hatchet (this sympathetic piece priced at $300), A 110-Fear-Old Woman Playing Solitaire (price $250). The nude is eschewed as oldfashioned. Female figures appear exclusively in cotton underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: In Berlin | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...will soon be established in connection with the "National Cathedral" at Washington, see of Bishop Freeman. It will train men of power to evangelize America. They will preach in baseball grounds, university stadia, wherever a crowd may be had. They will be inspired by the example of Peter the Hermit, Whitefeld, General Booth and other historic pulpitless preachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Men of Power | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

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