Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the Chinese Government has declared Confucius a national rather than a religious hero, the Vatican gave its missionaries and faithful (3,000,000 Chinese) per mission to join in ceremonial rites honoring the patron saint of China's State religion...
...rose Dr. Kung. In perfect English he told the assembled foreigners that in the Chinese zodiac cycle, the old year was represented by the timid rabbit, but the new, auspiciously, by the angry dragon-China's patron beast, sharp of claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted...
...Atonement today has 2,400 members, most of them mission aries. But it is best known for its retreat on the Hill of Atonement, at Graymoor, near Garrison, N. Y., to which homeless or troubled men of all faiths may go. Every guest is called Brother Christopher (for the patron saint of wayfarers) . The Broth ers Christopher, who have included arti sans of all kinds, built most of the buildings on the hill. St. Christopher's Inn, housing 200 men, has become too small, is to have a five-story addition. Last year the friars handed...
Harvard hears with deep regret of the death of Edward S. Harkness, a sympathetic and modest patron of American education for the past twenty years. At a time when the expansion of endowed universities seemed to have reached a standstill, it was Mr. Harkness's far-sightedness and generosity which made it possible for Harvard, and shortly thereafter, Yale, to institute the housing systems which have made and are making such a great contribution to undergraduate life...
Others will be: M. deWolfe Rowe '28, former editor of the Alumni Bulletin: Joseph R. Ramlen '04, publish or of the Bulletin: Jerome D. Greene '96, former editor of the Bulletin, and Secretary to the Corporation: Robert F. Herrick '90, patron of the crew and G. Howard Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English, emeritus...