Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Bishop, whose predecessors have been lords in Fulham since the days of Saint Erkenwald, 1200 years ago, is an author of considerable note. His works include "The Potter and the Clay," "Rays of Dawn," "Victory and After," and "The Spirit of Peace." He was born in Worcestershire, England, January 28, 1858, and was made Bishop of London in 1901. In 1915 he was created Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 1918 made Prelate of the Order of the British Empire...
...very keenly feel my responsibilities in endeavoring to interpret poetry as Charles Eliot Norton conceived of it. By poetry he meant the spirit present in art, in music, and in all life; not quite out of the sight, not quite out of earshot, but unheard amid the way of the would and the grinding of our own egotisms...
...first came to Harvard some years ago imbued with the idea of her traditions and adherance to the customs of old. Many of these I found and still cherish, that is why my spirit burns to see the old Waldorf chairs no longer in their wonted place. For many years the Waldorf was to be seen crowded nightly, now what? An occasional scattered group, stragglers, never the old solid masses that indicated the comfort and conviviality to be found there when the side arm chairs invited sprawling ease and lured by comfort the student from his studies...
...William Belden Noble Lectures will be delivered this year by the Reverend Charles E. Ravon, Canon residentiary of Liverpool Cathedral, and for mer Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The general subject of the lectures will be "The Spirit of God Creative and indwelling." Canon Ravon is the Hulsean lecturer for the year in the University of Cambridge...
...even the slightest wise-crack seem funny by the aid of a contorted face and voice. The rest of the cast is enthusiastic and homely enough to make the play as wholesome and hearty as a German Christians dinner. To show how much the actors have got into the spirit of the thing, one of the chorus is named Clara De Beers...