Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these holy precincts is a nun. The way of the spirit is no longer attractive to her and she sets her feet in the ways of the world, shedding her sacred garments and going forth with a gay knight. Then does the Blessed Virgin descend from her high place, don the robes of the nun and take the nun's place in the convent. Then the people weep and cry out, for their sacred image has been lost...
Anon the way of the Spirit seems wondrous sweet to her and she returns to the cathedral, and the Virgin, who has all these years played the part of a model nun, casts off the nun's garments and again becomes a sacred image. As she does so she takes into her arms the child which the nun has brought back, the child which dies as she returns to the way of the spirit...
...deciphered, he has found this reference to Christ's stature: "Thy stature, O Christ, was smaller than that of the children of Jacob, who sinned against Thy Father who elected Thee, and who kindled the wrath of the Eternal Son who dwelt in Thee, and who angered the Holy Spirit who sanctified Thee." According to another record: "Ofttimes He would appear to me as a small man and uncomely, and then again as one reaching unto Heaven. His head touched Heaven so that I was afraid and cried out, and He turning about appeared as a man of small stature...
...years a master at Middlesex School and has coached Harvard crews. In 1923 he founded and headed an elementary boarding school at Belmont Hills (suburb of Boston). His forte is athletics, and he lays down a 14-point code intended to simplify scholastic athletics, moderate their hotly competitive spirit, keep them within each school's own walls...
...workers is vast; only in isolated individual instances is it crossed. The social and political outlook of the country's educated classes is monumental evidence of the insularity of the average college graduate in the midst of a nation of factory girls, steel workers, miners and lumberjacks. The humanitarian spirit in America has made great strides in the last half century, but to too small an extent has it been grounded on a just understanding of the actualities of the workers' existence. Even future captains of industry who sift up through the ranks gain a somewhat distorted picture of their...