Word: stills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maturing in a cocoon of lightly spun traditions. It is a network of laboratories and libraries where knowledge of the world and the individual is advanced and stored. It is a corporation which acquires and husbands a great endowment. All these things Harvard has been and more or less still is in such fashion that not only her sons but the general citizenry may think of her as a type. And especially is this true of the changes which have been worked in the ancient institution...
...After second phlebitis, though feeling much better, am still in bed. Traveling December practically impossible.. Practicing at present unthinkable. Considering circumstances, tour should be postponed until next season. Inexpressibly sorry to have caused so much trouble and disappointment...
...that of the five new Cardinals, only two were Italians. The traditional balance between Italian and non-Italian Cardinals in the Sacred College which for centuries has assured the election of an Italian Pope was sadly askew, standing last week: Italians, 29; non-Italians, 33. As there are still eight vacancies, another consistory will probably soon be held, more Cardinals appointed. But according to tradition at least four seats in the College of Cardinals must remain unfilled...
...Christians, "Zion" means a holy city not of this world. To Jews, Zion connotes a temporal though still only potential refuge. Political Zionism, begun by Theodor Herzl in 1896, not only roused the Jewish national consciousness but made the world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had no homeland of their own. After Allenby's last crusade had wrested Palestine from the Turk, the Balfour Declaration (1917) seemed to recognize Jewish rights to at least a share in the modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing...
...recommend it," says Poet Lindsay, "to parents tired of psycho-analysis." Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay is now a shout (he has whispered lovely lyrics in his time). Sometimes he is inspiring, sometimes startlingly forceful, and some-times just a big noise. Born 50 years ago in Springfield, III, he still lives there. His middle name rhymes with Rachel. Besides his verse, he has written The Art of the Moving Picture, The Golden Book of Springfield, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty, Going to the Sun (description of a Rocky Mountain tramp with Stephen Graham...