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Methodist Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (1858-1902), described as "bold as a lion, tender as a woman, aflame with zeal," found Korea reactionary and pagan, gave it a school, a religious newspaper, a tract society, a printing and publishing house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trail of the Serpent | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...strictly enforced.) "Papalism" helped make bullnecked Plutarco Elias Calles Mexico's boss. Many another politician now employs it as a handy bogey. Most Mexican ladies (voteless) are pious and good. So are Mexico's straw-hatted peasants, although even Pius XI may not be sure what antique pagan notions linger in their Catholicism. But the men who run things are noisily, bombastically antireligious. Prompt and bellicose was the retort last week of Mexico's new young Provisional President Abelardo L. Rodriguez: "In an unforeseen and absurd manner there has been published the encyclical . . . whose tone does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Acerba Animi | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Twenty-six miles north of Harvard University is the sylvan town of Harvard. On a wooded hill of Harvard town last week assembled a congeries of learned men and not a few women. An imaginative person versed in pagan lore might have guessed that this company in the woods was a sabbat of warlocks and witches who had coursed here from coverts in every cranny of the world. For they talked of things beyond ordinary men's ken?of island universes racing 7,000 miles a second, of the universe exploding into chaos, of the moon's shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Astronomers in a Wood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...Washington (see p. 15). Died. Rev. Dr. Caleb Rochfort Stetson. 61, twelfth rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1932 | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Theses that have been published in the past are "Poetical Intexication", by W. N. Bates '30, "Shakespeare and the Ireland Forgeries", by Derk Bodde '30, "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw" by H. A. Brinser '31, and "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan", by Robert Peel '31. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH THESIS BY WATT ONLY ONE TO BE PUBLISHED | 6/3/1932 | See Source »

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