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...added feature in its already comprehensive program the Summer School of 1935 is advertising a course in bird lore, whose chief distinction is that it will be the first in the history of the College to get under way at the subnormal hour of 6 o'clock...
...Frederic Jackson; John Golden, producer). The Bishop of Broadminster (Walter Connolly) always wanted to be a detective. The sins of his flock were trifling. It saddened him to think what a resourceful criminologist Scotland Yard lost when he donned the cloth. As a consolation he steeped himself in the lore of the underworld. Consequently he was thoroughly equipped to deal with the situation when he and his sister walked into a rural public house on the heels of an ingenious jewel robbery...
Four years ago Mr. Woollcott discussed that story, "the perfect specimen of folk lore," with English Journalist Valentine Williams, who testified to its recurrence in English, French and German newspapers about every six-months for the past 25 years. Nearly always it is issued from, some remote town in Eastern Europe. Two weeks after the Woollcott-Williams conversation, the same old story landed on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune as an Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw, with the headline: PARENTS KILL RICH SON POSING AS A STRANGER Pole, Home After 18 Years...
...many saints have lived on earth, not even the wisest hagiologist knows. In the early days of Christendom, anchorites, eremites, monks and vagrants were of such piety that even the animals of the world collaborated with them. This half-forgot-ten aspect of the lore of sainthood was lately recalled by Helen Waddell, author of Peter Abelard. Delving in the Latin works of church fathers, monks and priests from the 4th to the 12th Century, she collected 44 anecdotes, translated them as Beasts & Saints.* Some saintly animal stories...
...Professor Friedrich has not hesitated to state the problem succinctly in a recent Atlantic Monthly as follows, "A doctor must spend months on end bent over an evil-smelling carcass, dissecting it with his own hands" while a lawyer has to master the "dry-as-dust mass of legal lore which may be and probably is utterly repellent to his active, dramatic nature. Unless he possesses self-discipline, and a good measure of it, he cannot get his degree...