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...week Finland's Freemasons were cleared. Police raided a cemetery, caught three men and two women in the act of dissecting a cadaver. In the man's pockets were several pigeons. They explained that certain parts of the corpses, supplemented by pigeon blood, were very useful for "occult purposes...
...reasons offered for this occult policy in respect to business carried out condense into one, that the Council is in the last analysis an advisory body. Its decisions must be further approved by various University committees. It would cause embarrassment the argument runs, both to the Council and to the University officials concerned if some measure passed by the first group should be turned down by the second. If no notice of Student Council conclusions is ever made until the change has passed all the stages of official sanction, it makes no difference what the attitude of the group...
...their country before the United States entered the war. But the Corporation decreed that these men were not Harvard men and have no place on the roll of honor because they fought for the wrong country. And the Corporation found justification for its decision in a sort of occult interpretation of the unexpressed opinions of the donors who contributed funds for the new chapel. Those who gave money to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the purpose of building and endowing a University Church never passed judgment on the question of commemorating the names of those who died...
...Directorate of the Fascist party, with regard to the recent controversy originated by the document evidence of open and occult hostility of some sections of Catholic Action, while reaffirming its profound and immutable respect toward the Catholic religion, its head, its ministers and churches, declares in a most explicit manner that the Fascist party has firmly decided not to tolerate those antiFascists so far spared, under any new or old banner whatsoever, under which they may seek shelter...
...Artist Dabo retained well what he learned of composition from Whistler, of color from Puvis de Chavannes. His almost academic rendering and semi-symbolism date him definitely as of their time. For his simplicity and haziness of detail there is further explanation. He has delved deep into occult literature, emerged with a great faith in the Simple Things of Life. Last week a fellow-believer, the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas, dropped into the exhibition and interrupted Artist Dabo's explanation of his works for an involved discussion of these Simple Things...