Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist, was scheduled to make one of his rare concert appearances under the maestro. The other festival conductors were also extra-Axis: England's bald-pated Sir Adrian Boult, Switzerland...
...supervisor of the Children's Bureau in Cleveland, joined the faculty of Western Reserve in 1929. In 1934 she went to New York's Fordham University as associate professor in the School of Social Service. Sympathetic, conscientious and reliable, she began to attract the attention of her Jesuit superiors. Last week, at 42, Anna King became dean of the school, first woman ever to be appointed dean of a Jesuit institution...
Although the Jesuits, all men, teach thousands of women, no woman had ever before been named to such a high administrative post in a Jesuit college. But to Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, Miss King's promotion was "logical," since Fordham has more than 3,000 women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth...
...husband, did not bully him into turning Catholic. Broun's conversion came slowly, was sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen's Work in St. Louis, distant kinsman of Actor Eddie Dowling. Jesuit Dowling, once a crack baseballer, called "Puggy" by St. Louis schoolmates, worked on the Globe-Democrat before he became a priest in 1931, is today a member of Broun's Newspaper Guild...
...Jesuit Edward Boyd Barrett, in The Jesuit Enigma, declared that Jesuits are urged to look people straight in the nose, presumably to disconcert them. Good Jesuits consider this romancing-a distortion of the truth that sight, like other senses, may cause sinning...