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...World's Fair of 1893 was the Parliament of Religions, gotten up by the Rev. John Henry Barrows of Chicago. Opened with a prayer by the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the Parliament brought to the U. S. for the first time such exotic foreign religionists as the Swami Vivekananda. To the U. S. popular mind it gave the first smatterings of an esoteric subject, Comparative Religions, and the first inklings that Oriental faiths, after all, had their points...
...Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb esthete; the daughter married and divorced a Prince, adopted a swami; the youngest son seduced a countergirl, grew so brash in his manners that Daniel Pardway had to order him away. All this is the more painful because it is Daniel Pardway's ambition to leave the Bazaar to his offspring. The news that his general manager has bought...
...Rangoon last fortnight, Narasingha Swami, Indian mystic, ate a handful of ground glass, drank half a drachma of nitric acid, some sulfuric acid, also swallowed a grain of strychnine and a grain of potassium cyanide.. He died in agony. His friends explained it was because he had been kept from doing his yatayoga (breath-control and autosuggestion exercises) by swarms of visitors at his house...
From there on the water grew continually rougher due to a quartering east wind. The Seniors took the lead shortly after passing under the Harvard Bridge and were followed closely by the second year crew with S. W. Swami '31 setting the beat. The juniors trailing slightly in the rough water, made their final bid for second place in the last quarter mile, crossing the finish line a half length behind the Sophomores...
Amelita Galli-Curci (coloratura soprano) gave her name for advertising purposes to Swami Yogananda of India and Los Angeles, Calif., a man who looks like a plump woman. She was quoted in copy in Manhattan theatre programs as saying: "YOGODA gives Health, Strength, Power to Accomplish, Peace and Poise." Among other things, YOGODA claims to teach people "to Recharge their body, mind and soul Batteries from Inner Cosmic Energy ... to meditate, to know Divine truths." Last week Swami Yogananda was ordered by the police to leave Miami, Fla., where he had been extending his practices...