Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imposing in its new fledged majesty, the Bursar's Office reasserts its commanding position over the life and destiny of the University. Massachusetts Hall, the patriarch of college buildings, is once more restored to usefulness, at once the oldest and newest, the crudest and the finest of dormitories. For its renovation equal thanks are due the fire which precipitated its restoration and President Lowell who sponsored...
...Patriarch of Alexandria, the Metropolitan of Sofia (Bulgaria) bowed their gray heads in reverent appreciation...
...Kingdom of God." His theme etched a contrast between old church councils which debated dogma and this conference which concerned itself with the practical good which Christianity should attempt to achieve in the world today; his crescendo, "the sovereignty of Jesus in everything pertaining to human affairs." The Patriarch of Alexandria uttered the benediction...
Since the War, Archbishop Platon has been in actual possession of the American branch of the Russian Church, but he has been hostile to the new regime in Russia, and did not follow the Patriarch Tikhon when that lately deceased ruler (TIME, Apr. 20) compromised with the new Church faction in Russia. Patriarch Tikhon had summoned him to Moscow to be unfrocked. Thus Platon may be generally identified with the aristocratically inclined "unreconstructed Russian...
Once more the patriarch of song and dancing has operated on his current show. New blood for its failing veins he has purchased, new cooling costumes for the chorus, new backgrounds, new tunes. Since this year's Follies was one of the smartest ever staged, these changes seemed scarcely necessary. They advance the show's excellence sufficiently to make it worth while on second visit...