Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder what you read," said Professor John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson professor of English, to a Freshman class recently. "I'm just wondering." Professor Lowes was some-what perturbed when he mentioned a familiar incident from "Pilgrim's Progress," and from a class of two hundred received not a single sign of recognition...
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Because non-Moslems are barred from Mecca during the pilgrim season upon pain of death; because Ibn Saud and his personal followers are so strict that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March...
...masque based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey there were ceremonies commemorating Scott's burial there. And in many a mountain glen the clans gathered, the pibrochs skirled...
...Little Flower's shrine at Lisieux, France, where Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there...