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...Cincinnati, Archbishop John T. McNicholas observed the conversion to Roman Catholicism of 70 Negroes, including two onetime Protestant ministers; urged them to train their children for priesthood, sisterhood; said: "I earnestly ask all our colored citizens to consider the position of the Catholic church, to study her teachings, to realize that her ceremonials, her processions, her music are full of a profound meaning which, if understood, could not fail to stir the deepest emotion of the colored race...
...recorded the epithets which successive ages of good Americans had flung at progressive women: "In delicate" when they first wanted to study geography; "immodest" when they asked for physiology; "free lov ers," "frumps and freaks," "screaming sisterhood"; "pro-Germans" during the War; "Bolsheviki" after...
...though a part of the booksellers' protest may be answered with the statement that the tremendous in crease of public interest in literature is probably responsible for the flood of mediocre work now issuing from the press, the fact of its mediocrity must be admitted. If the brotherhood and sisterhood of the P. E. N. would divert some of the celestial fire which animates their search for the modern holy grail toward reducing the quantity and raising the quality or present-day reading matter they could render this country and the rest of the world a real and immediate service...
...Idler", Radcliffe's dramatic club, has presented Sierra's "Cancione de Cuna" at Agassiz Theatre. To the drama itself there is no great excitement. But the performance is evidently intended more to depict the sober, melancholy life of the Roman Cathlotic Sisterhood, than to act out a gripping love story...
...portrait was presented by the Queen to the Carmelite Convent near Madrid, in recognition of the hospitality of the nuns during a 'disagreement with her unfaithful husband. The nuns, on receiving the portrait, intended subtle flattery to Isabella by painting the robes of the sisterhood over the rich court brocades 'depicted by Velasquez...