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...Author. Although his father was Lord Carnock of Carnock his mother was a Rowan Hamilton of County Down. Perhaps because he has Irish blood in him Harold George Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more...
...frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much for an old traditionalist. And so, as the bells come in, the Vagabond goes out, back to Memorial Hall, that symbol of an old-and-not-to-be-despised Harvard...
Author Frangois Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thérèse, Destiny...
...second William Belden Noble lecture of the year will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson D. Reverend Henry D. A. Major, Principal of Ripon Hall. Oxford, England will speak on "The Relation of Modernism to the Christian Church: Causes, Which Convert the Traditionalist into the Modernist...
...Major, founder of the "Modern Churchman" fifteen years ago and since then its editor, will treat his subject under the following heads; the Larger Modernism: English Modernism and its Immediate Predecessors: the Relation of Modernism to the Christian Church: Causes which convert the Traditionalist into the Modernist; Modernism and New Truth; Modernist; Reconstruction: Modernism and Miracles: Modernism and Jesus Christ: Modernism and the Creeds: Modernism and the Future...