Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This anniversary is looked forward to as a particularly momentous occasion, because it constitutes a reunion of the members of Phi Beta Kappa to make plans for the sesquicentennial next year. Important features of the progress of many of these gatherings will be addresses reviewing the history of the fraternity and reports of the progress made in raising the one hundred fiftieth Anniversary Endowment Fund, the most significant project initiated by the United Chapters in recent years...
...Reverend Dr. E. Clowes Chorley, Historiographer of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meditated on the possibility of the Anglo-Catholics going over to Rome. Wrote he, reporting the congress for the New York Herald Tribune: " 'What are the fundamental difficulties in the way of reunion with Rome?' I asked [a fellow divine]. The answer was: 'There are but two-the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope.' The Catholics of the Episcopal Church are willing to render obedience to the Pope as the chief of bishops; they balk at infallibility...
...summary can do justice to Mr. Bryan's purple passages, such as: "Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow; Evolution strikes out the stars and deepens the gloom that enshrouds the tomb...
...each represented lodge will prance in its own original uniform. Grand Exalted Ruler John G. Price of Columbus, O., will come with an escort on a special train chartered by Detroit lodge No. 34; the Elks will climb snow-capped peaks, swim on Oregon beaches, visit big sawmills, wear reunion buttons...
Each succeeding reunion of the G. A. R. finds its ranks thinner as, one by one, their comrades go to rest. It may be that, 50 years hence, there will be a reunion of newspapers that published crossword puzzles-but already their ranks are thinning. Two papers have dropped out within a few days: The Chicago Daily Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution...