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From April 2 (Passion Sunday), 1933 to April 2, 1934 is by papal proclamation to be a special holy year,* celebrating the 1900th anniversary of the death of Jesus Christ. "We are not sure," said the Pope, "whether the anniversary should fall in 1933 or 1934. However, we proclaim it now because we wish to give bishops, priests and the faithful time to prepare. . . . The year 1933 is generally associated in the minds of simple citizens with 33 A. D., when Christ is believed to have died. . . . Uncertainty takes away nothing from the greatness of the infinite number of benefits...
...crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science and campanology (the science of bells); A Lowell of Lowells, brother of the late Astronomer Percival and the late terrifying, cigar-smoking poetess Amy who used to proclaim: "I am the only member of the Lowell family that's worth a damn." Harvardmen know that Dr. Lowell was born in Boston, won a silver cup in 1875 for winning a mile race in 5 min. 14 sec.* was graduated from Harvard in 1877; married...
...destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the right of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the U. S. : 'to be different is to be indecent.' " It is a crowded age, especially in Europe, whose population has increased from 180,000,000 to 460,000,000 since 1800. Ortega y Gasset denies...
...Japan will proclaim such an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine I will support her with all my power either during my Presidency or after its expiration...
...enough to make a complete circle around the infield. When all the athletes had marched past the tribune of honor and grouped themselves in the infield, Vice President Curtis stood up to deliver 27 momentous words: "In the name of the President of the United States, I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Los Angeles, celebrating the Tenth Olympiad of the Modern...