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Most lucrative plum--the George B. Sohier Prize, worth $250 for the "best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature"--went to McArthur for his essay "Saints in Ambush." Haas was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize--$75--for his essay "The Monk and Don Juan" in the field of Spanish Literature of the Golden...
...influx has brought problems. Pickpockets (mostly adolescent) are a nuisance. Pimps and prostitutes are on the increase. A score are arrested daily and one bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book...
...library and a school as well. In the school, the oldest in Christendom, Saint Thomas Aquinas was once a pupil. In the library, which included unique manuscripts of Tacitus, Apuleius and Varro, such Renaissance scholars as Giovanni Boccaccio browsed and pilfered. Adalhard, Charlemagne's cousin, became a monk at Monte Cassino. So did Paul the Deacon, to whom Charlemagne wrote, in a letter, a phrase which epitomizes the abbey: Est nam certa quies fessis venientibus illuc-"For there is certain rest for the weary who come there...
Died. General Phya Phahon Phon Phayuhasena, 60, moonfaced, swashbuckling onetime strong man of Siam, leader of the 1933 coup d'etat which eventually resulted in the abdication of the late King Prajadhipok, for five years premier and dictator, briefly in 1941 a yellow-robed, Buddhist beggar-monk; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...
...members listened gravely to their leaders (two well-educated robbers) and solemnly passed a resolution, proposed by a Buddhist monk, which censured the Government for using batons in breaking up Communist demonstrations, and arresting demonstrators before their wounds had healed. The prisoners warned that if the Government did not meet its demands, the union would not be responsible for unrest in the jail...