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...Emporia, Kans. Gazette, described a "concert" he had with Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell on the Vulcania returning from Europe: "The Cardinal and I happened to be in the conservatory alone. I was plugging at the piano, and I happened to play the 'Hymn to the Evening Star.' Then the Cardinal played the 'Pilgrims' Chorus' from Tannhäuser. Then it was my turn and I played 'Cavalleria Rusticana.' The Cardinal popped up and said he wanted to show me how it ought to be played...
When these speeches have been given, President Conant will ask for A. Lawrence Lowell '77, president emeritus of the University, to address the meeting. Following the singing of a hymn, the gathering will adjourn to the Faculty Club for luncheon...
...kangaroo court, exact his confession to both murders by dunking him in a rat-infested well. The conclusion is an amazing scene, presumably a DeMil-lenium, in which the schoolboys parade through the streets singing such songs as "The Old Grey Mare" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while riding Garrett on a rail to the courthouse...
...incorporated where state laws require it. Hence they may perform religious marriage ceremonies (which do not differ from those of other Christian sects). Spiritualists resent being classed with fortune-tellers and crystal-gazers (while professional magicians delight thus to classify them). Church services are usually on Sunday night, with hymn-singing, invocation, Bible-reading, lecture and-central feature which Spiritualists regard as their "Communion"-a séance. With the minister or a visiting medium officiating, messages are received from the other world. The congregation may applaud, chat. Cheeriness is the note...
...acceptance of the stone Bishop Manning arranged a Greek-Episcopal service during which St. Paul's sermon was read in Greek as well as English. A choir of Greek moppets sang a Byzantine hymn to St. John the Divine. Greeks and Episcopalians were photographed together as bushy-bearded Athenagoras. Archbishop of North & South America, presented the stone in a velvet-lined box on behalf of Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Athens, who wrote to his western brother saying: '"I consider this stone more precious than gold or silver...