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...church Anglicans call high churchmen "spikes" (for their sharp, uncompromising churchmanship). Under the "merry monks"-as the low-church Episcopal Chronicle called them-St. Mary's became one of the great spike churches of the U. S. It used quantities of incense and holy water, burned vigil lamps in its shrine of Our Lady, reserved the Blessed Sacrament (i.e., kept it on the altar for adoration), bought fancy vestments by the trunkful. It celebrated such rare feasts as the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin. The church was perhaps the only one in the U. S. which maintained...
...tutoring schools. A separate staff would probably be necessary in University Hall to concern itself solely with tutoring bureau relations. Students applying for aid would be recommended to any on a list of approved schools; and conversely, these would accept only tutees sent to them by University officials. A vigil ceaseless as that of the vestal virgins would have to be maintained in order to keep the schools within their proper limits. On the other hand, the faculty could use these same schools as sources of information about the failings in their course. Tutoring establishments could become vital stimulants...
...windows of the Vatican palaces, to the right of the Square and its long Bernini colonnades. One light shone dimly. In the small second-story chamber which it illuminated, on a plain brass bed, a weary old man lay breathing heavily. A black-cowled monk, a silent doctor kept vigil...
...five years since Franklin Roosevelt began his vigil over business morals, FTC has disposed of twice as many com plaints as in the previous five years-and the commission has been rewarded for its vigilance: 1) the 1936 Robinson-Patman Act extended its jurisdiction over price discrimination; 2) the 1938 Wheeler-Lea amendment to the original Federal Trade Commission Act relieved it of the necessity of proving that unfair trade practices injured competitors and allowed the commission to go to court to obtain remedies; 3) this year the Government provided the commission with a new home...
...vague memory of my son and in vivid hopes of their sons, if parents, while preserving freedom of speech, compel the integrity of public education, then my son may not have died wholly in vain. But should parents fail in this perpetual vigil of peace, then in war will come slaughter between Communist sons and loyal sons -not abroad but at home...