Word: monasticism
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William Lyon Phelps, in a recent magazine article, looks back fifty years to his won college career, and then deplores the passing of the good old days. Though ready enough to admit the great advances in education since then, and even the superiority in most respects of the modern college...
Desirable as it might be to turn the present college into an Old Heidelberg, it cannot be done in all the respects of which Dr. Phelps speaks. College education has become too practical to isolate it from the affairs of the world; and especially is this the case where college...
THE MYSTERY OF VAUCLUSE - J. H. Wallis-Dutton ($2). The monastic peace of the adult college was shattered by the murder of its founder-leader. It took more than one investigator to find out who could be so base.
The calling of University economists as advisers to the world's political leaders, like the calling of university historians and students of government to the Paris Peace Conference, ought to remind the public of the falsity of the opinion that university professors lead unfruitful lives in monastic aloofness to the...
Not since 886 had there been a Patriarch named Photios. And not since 787 (second Nicaean Council, before East and West split) has there been held an Ecumenical Synod of the Orthodox Eastern Church. Next June at Mount Athos, Greece's monastic republic (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929), will be...