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...oldest Protestant church" in western Christendom celebrated a centennial last week. In 1179 a rich Lyons merchant named Peter Waldo took a vow of poverty and defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible on his own. Excommunicated as a heretic, Waldo fled to the hills with his followers. For nearly 700 years the Waldenses held out against papal persecution in the valleys of the Cottian Alps. A hundred years ago they were granted religious freedom. But their centennial found today's Waldenses still worried about their status under Italy's present government...
Doris Carroll '49 and Ann Coombs '48, chairmen of the drive, have set a 1000-volume goal for the campaign, which will answer a plea for books from a student at Charles, who reported that the stacks of the third oldest university in the world contain no books published between...
Thirty-year-old Don Fegenbush is one of the oldest "blue babies" known to medicine. Blue babies rarely live beyond twelve unless an operation corrects a congenital defect: a too-small opening in the pulmonary artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. One day last week Don decided to risk the operation devised by Johns Hopkins' Surgeon Alfred Blalock (TIME...
Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, had a sad announcement to make before the House of Lords. Five of His Majesty's oldest and most revered men-o'-war, once the symbols of Britain's might, had been ticketed for the scrap yards. Said Hall: "The First Sea Lord and I feel like two padres conducting the funeral service of a number of old friends...
Head Master Arnold set up a theocracy, with himself as Jehovah and the Sixth Form (oldest) boys as the Judges in Israel. He was convinced that education's primary task was the making of a Christian gentleman, not the development of an intellectual. Arnold did his part: searing sermons in chapel about evil and temptation, a terrible eye fixed on the "Close" (school grounds) beneath his window. Arnold's Rugby was the Rugby of "fagging" and Tom Brown's School Days...