Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monk is Georges LeMaitre, Belgian priest, although he affects the conventional black suit of the learned U. S. Jesuit. No funster is he, although he chuckles continually. No nitwit is he, although he says of a steam engine device newly invented by his brother in Geneva: "It does something about the puff-puff-the exhaust-but I am not sure what it is." The Catholic University of Louvain educated him; the late Cardinal Mercier ordained him; M. I. T. taught him physics and English; Louvain created for him a chair of relativity. At 39 he deals with Nobel laureates...
...Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, was not a Fellow of Oxford nor did he have the benefit of our five Jesuit schools. Yet his ideas had a little something in them...
...Donnell of the University of Notre Dame; vice presidents include Agnes Repplier, Aline Kilmer, Theodore Maynard. Last month the Catholic Poetry Society adopted a constitution, last week in Manhattan held its first public meeting. The Society's headquarters are next door to those of America, urbane Jesuit weekly whose literary editor, Father Francis Talbot. S. J., is chaplain to the Society. A onetime English teacher at Boston University, Father Talbot helped found the Catholic Book Club which selects secular books for the faithful to read. This month he is to publish a book of plays. Shining in the Dark...
...Author. Born in J. M. Synge's Arran Islands in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty has infused something of the Playboy into his career. Educated in a Jesuit College, as a youth he was intensely religious, scandalized his family by joining the Irish Guards to save Catholic Belgium. He was shell-shocked in the War; returned to Ireland for the Irish Revolution. Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when...
When on May n, 1871, Ferdinand Foch, a young student at the Jesuit College of St. Clement's at Metz, heard the classroom windows rattle to the guns' announcement that the city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry...