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...Individual Soviet citizens have gone to China and enlisted in the Chinese armies just as English volunteers joined the Boers and as Lord Byron fought for Greece. . . . England protests against the aid which we gave the striking coal miners, but the British sent money here for the Patriarch Tikhon. Great Britain must realize that a break with us means a break with one-sixth of the world...
Those who have long urged this course upon Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) are headed by the 90-year-old Cardinal Bishop Vincenzo Vannutelli, patriarch of the Sacred College. A venerable radical, he has pointed out that 37 Cardinals for Italy and only 30 more for the remainder of the Earth is a curious proportion. Canada, Australia and Ireland have had no Cardinals since the deaths of their last representatives in the Sacred College. The Americas have but five Cardinals?the U. S. four,* South America one.? England has only two.** Belgium desires a successor...
Presenting "The Patriarch," a play written by Boyd Smith, Professor George Pierce Baker '87 formally opened the new Yale University Theatre last week...
...four people to form the audience; by the end of the year more than three hundred were active followers of the temporary 47 Workshop. For the five opening performances on Friday, Saturday and Monday over five thousand people from the theatre and interested world at large were invited. The "Patriarch," a West Virginia mountain tragedy, by Boyd M. Smith, who was with Professor Baker at Harvard, was chosen for the opening; and although this is not the place for a discussion of the play, it is pleasing to note that it was bought for New York production...
Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...