Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Land trembled and was shaken last week from Jerusalem to Jericho (13 miles) and very largely along the banks of Jordan. Outside the quake area were Bethlehem and the Dead Sea on the South; and Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North. Between these two seas (65 miles apart), an area roughly 55 miles in diameter trembled. Killed were some 670 persons?not one of these reputedly a U. S. citizen or Jew. Injured were more than 3,000 natives and a few scattered Occidentals. Property damage, hasty appraisers said, exceeded...
While even great and good men have occasionally made sport of Virtue, in every age, it is still venerated with the utmost pomp by a Germanic branch of that famed brotherhood of nobles, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem...
...getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." President Lowell in his Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel yesterday forsaw the possibility of such tragedy when he took for his text the pessimistic words of the Preacher and King of Jerusalem, "What profit hath a man of all his labor that he taketh under the sun?" But the President spoke well for the present as well, when he advised against future disappointment with a study of the nature of man's labor and the profit to be obtained therefrom...
...rhythm in their sway, holy words rolling out from their mouths of wisdom; softly now, then louder, getting deep when they roar of the Fiery Furnace; thundering the Lord and his works on Sinai; now softly again, slower, crooning how the Lord was in his good works at little Jerusalem; sobbing how the humbler Lord was broken and crucified by the white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro...
Professor Conant at 12 o'clock in Robinson Hall will lecture on the Churches of St. John Lateran at Rome, of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. This lecture will be illustrated with slides chosen with especial care. The discussion, dealing with the almost naive early Christian monuments, will be of particular interest in comparison with Professor Edgell's, which has to do with a highly sophisticated style of architecture...