Word: lancasterism
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Over 200 men, looking forward to their sole opportunity of the spring term to rib the officers and attracted by the promise of free beer and coke, are expected to attend the performance. There has been no censorship, declares William C. Lancaster, president of the Naval Society, and members of...
Jacques Barzun, 37-year-old son of a French scholar, was only nine when he taught his first class. That was in France during World War I, under the so-called Lancaster system, by which older pupils teach the younger. He followed his father to the U.S., found himself advanced...
Correspondent Lael Tucker got up in a 400-franc Lancaster Hotel room, washed in cold water, breakfasted on three slices of bread and butter supplemented with honey brought from the south of France and cafe national (burnt barley)- cost of breakfast, 100 francs. Her car broke down half way to...
For two months, the No. 1 spiritual adviser to Quebec's isolationist-minded millions had been very close to the war. As Military Vicar of all Roman Catholics in Canada's armed forces, His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve had toured battlefronts, talked to fighting men of...
One night during the Quebec Conference, Jean Marie Rodrigue, Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, had dined with President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Thereupon he canceled a projected trip to Mexico. A big Lancaster bomber flew him from Montreal to Britain (it was the first plane trip of...