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...pacifist and philosopher in his declining years, he last month delivered his own valedictory in what was his final public appearance, his investiture as Edinburgh University's Lord Rector. Before Scotland's rowdiest undergraduates, who interrupted his speech by pelting him with paper bags filled with flour, with colored streamers, beans and peppermints, he imperturbably declared: "Unless the people of Europe discard this narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism there will be a return to the Dark Ages. The lust for expansion is not quite dead, but the glory of conquest is departing. Its gains are Dead...
...doubled the U. S.'s territory. His public service over, he was glad to get back to his books and his beloved Monticello. In 1819 he laid out the University of Virginia almost single-handed and down to its last architectural and administrative detail, served as its first Rector. Bad times wasted his patrimony away, but he died without knowing that Monticello would have to be sold. His last years were enlivened by a correspondence with John Adams, a friend of long standing with whom he had quarreled over politics and with whom he was pleased to be reconciled...
Deacon James De Wolf Perry Jr., 27, is the third of his name in direct line to enter the Episcopal Church. Bishop James De Wolf Perry Sr. was born 64 years ago in Germantown, Pa., where his father was a longtime rector. Young Deacon Perry grew up in Providence, in the diocese of which his father has been the urbane, affluent shepherd since 1911. Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, which graduated young James Perry in 1928, sermonized in the Providence Cathedral last week: "You have had the heart of a priest from your boyhood. You were dedicated...
...this a labor meeting or a stockholders' meeting?" asked Director Stanley Ross. When a motion was made that money now spent by Borden on labor disputes should be spent for arbitration, Di rector Ross complained bitterly that "most of the company's labor troubles have been inspired by Reds and Communists...
When Bishop James Hugh Ryan departed from the Catholic University of America in Washington to become shepherd of Omaha's Roman Catholics (TIME, Nov. 25), the trustees of that Pontifical institution decided upon a convert Catholic for the University's next rector-Dr. Robert Howard Lord, once of Harvard, now a Church History professor at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Mass. The Holy See and its Apostolic Delegate in the U. S., however, do things in their own way. Last week was announced the appointment to the Washington post of Monsignor Joseph M. Corrigan, 56, rector since...