Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, read eight of the most well-known poems by the English author in Sever 11, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All of the poems written by this well-liked British Jesuit were published after his death, late in the nineteenth century...
...collection was the work of the late Jesuit Father Erich Wasmann, known as the "Fabre* of the ants." His studies of ant psychology (hermaphroditism, agricultural cooperation, etc.) are the basis of modern theories about ant society. Beginning as a specialist in the red ant, Father Wasmann eventually gathered specimens of most of the 3,500 known species of ants. When he died in 1931, he left the collection to another Jesuit entomologist, Father Schmitz, who added to it his own great collection of phorid flies (a species of hunchbacked insect...
...current issue of the Jesuit magazine The Queen's Work, Father Daniel Lord, noted Catholic editor, calls his readers' attention to a new Mass composed by a young nun of San Antonio. Despite the fact that it is based on the folk tunes of the American Negro, Father Lord thinks that it should satisfy the high standards of canonical law as well as musical criticism. Its themes are expertly treated...
...winter of 1875 the sailing ship Deutschland foundered in a storm in the Thames estuary. All her crew and five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, went down with her. Far away in the Welsh mountains, 31-year-old Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit novice, was shocked by the catastrophe into writing his first poem in seven years. He sent The Wreck of the Deutschland to his young friend, Poet Robert Bridges, who carefully pasted the epic into an album. There it remained for 40 years, until publication of Hopkins' collected works brought the long-dead Jesuit acclaim...
There was no Catholic protest, although some Catholics criticized the window as art, complained that the design was not particularly appropriate. Jesuit Father John LaFarge (son of famed Painter John LaFarge) called the window "unobjectionable." "It does not mean," he added, "that the Blessed Mother is taking a partisan stand, but that she feels a maternal concern for our men in service." Last week the Navy ordered Designer Burnham to remove the warship from his design, substitute the Infant Jesus...