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"For such a study the best material is found in the accounts of institutions and the households of the nobles. The Archives of the great monastic houses, of the five great military orders, and of many ducal houses are known to be substantially complete. The exact nature of these resources...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quartet of Recipients of Milton Awards Describe the Researches They Will Carry On | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

IN the tale of homely people whose lives touch and intertwine through their proximity to each other in that curiously respectable phenomenon of urbanity, a London lodging house, Miss Phillpotts evinces a mature power without wholly sustaining the reader's credulity. One cannot help wondering at the sudden transformation of...

Author: By H. V. P., | Title: Rehabilitation of War-Shocked Love | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

In addition to the extra-mural interests and activities which distracted the head of the house, there came to be a special source of distraction affecting the brethren. In earlier times, in the golden age of monasteries, only those with a calling or even a genius for monastic life entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW DEAN ANALYZES EDUCATIONAL CRISIS | 6/10/1925 | See Source »

Nor are preoccupation with the social advantages of the University and its consequences much less marked than preoccupation with the social possibilities of the monasteries on the eve of their dissolution. Monastic ignorance is quite paralleled by the ignorance that lurks about institutions of learning. . . .

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW DEAN ANALYZES EDUCATIONAL CRISIS | 6/10/1925 | See Source »

If the age of this single building be proved, the whole case for Columba and Irish cultural hegemone falls to the ground; and there can be no possible doubt that the combined proofs of the expedition will satisfy the most skeptical or most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICANS IS RECOUNTED BY UNION ESSAYIST FROM VIEWPOINT OF SCIENTISTS IN FUTURE AGES | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

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