Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Brigham H. Roberts, 66, of Manhattan, former President of the Mormon Church, now President of the Mormon Eastern States Mission, to Miss Margaret Curtis, 64, of Chicago. In 1900 Mr. Roberts was excluded from his seat from Utah in the U. S. House of Representatives after having been tried by the House on charges of polygamy. Two of his three wives, married before polygamy was barred by the Mormon Church and the laws of Utah, are still living...
...mediocre product of intelligentia. Certainly the ideal university is not merely a large-scale vendor of knowledge, and it is perhaps with apprehension of this tendency in American education that President Butler of Columbia has taken the occasion of the inaugural exercises at Washington University to define the mission of the modern University. As important as the task of advancing learning, he believes, is that of offering a "reconciliation of the conflicting movements of nationalism and internationalism...
...their reconciliation and their unity in the university". Such a statement presupposes that college provincialism and prejudice have been swept away by the abolition of Freshman caps. Yet President Butler's admission that "the University . . . is as yet only partially conscious of its place in civilization and of its mission" should spur it to a realization of its ideals. A constant contemplation of abstract virtues enabled medieval ascetics to work miracles, and that method should be effective today. The more frequently leader like President Butler set forth an ideal of liberal university education, the sooner will it be accepted...
Former Ambassador Morgenthan, whose latest book "All in a Life-time" was one of the outstanding biographies of last season, has sailed for Greece on an important unofficial diplomatic mission. He is to take the active chairmanship of the commission under the League of Nations for the settlement of refugees from Anatolia in Western Thrace and Macedonia. 600,000 of these exiles are now given shelter by the Greek government which has deeded more than a million acres of vacant lands to their use. The Greeks have undertaken to raise among themselves 1,000,000 Pounds and the British have...
...Cenobite monk living in the Theban desert near Alexandria, worships God through self-mortification. On a visit to Alexandria he meets Thaïs, beautiful courtesan who worships Venus. Nicias, a young Sybaritic philosopher, has bought her love for one week. The monk Athena? perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ. His ancient comrade, Pelamon, says: "My son, ne'er mingle with the people of this era"; Nicias laughs in scorn; the mob throws stones; yet he succeeds in reforming Thaïs. Thaïs sees the emptiness of pleasure...