Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college in Newport, then the foremost cultural center in America, rather than in Bermuda, and shows why Berkeley, for good reasons, was unwilling to do this. It is also established that Berkeley preached in King's Chapel. Dr. Rand gives the first account, partly conjectural, of Berkeley's visit to Harvard, where President Wadsworth received him September 17, 1731, presumably in Wadsworth House...
...measure after President Hoover's spectacular dash to the Capitol (TIME. June 6). His belated and ambiguous recommendation for a "general manufacturers' excise" tax the Senate impatiently brushed aside. Long after his return to the White House, Senators orated angrily against his sudden visit to their chamber, called it an unnecessary publicity stunt...
Recently brisk little Premier Ismet Pasha made a goodwill visit to Moscow (TIME, May 9) on which he scooped up an $8,000,000 loan, payable in Soviet goods, repayable in Turkish. Last week, Premier Ismet fraternized with Premier Mussolini, sipped his Asti spumante, swallowed his spaghetti, toyed with his black olives and figuratively held out an upturned Turkish palm. After dinner Il Duce entertained his Turkish friend by playing the violin. When Premier Ismet finally left for home he had secured a $15,000,000 loan, one-third in cash, the rest in Italian manufactures...
...Puzzled, he asked the San José sacristan's advice, was told that the natives had no use for his sermons, which praised San Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron, San José? At his next visit Padre Martinez propped an image of San José in the pulpit, stood on the floor himself. While the sacristan circulated the money-box among the congregation, the Padre exhorted them to pray to San José. That saint did not waste time preaching to birds and fish, like...
...Harvard Unit on the Tillman will cruise in formation with the units from Yale on the U.S.S. Goff, Georgia Tech on the U.S.S. Taylor, and Northwestern on the U.S.S. Bainbridge. The destination has not yet been decided, but it is hoped that the ships will visit New London for the Harvard-Yale boat races. This uncertainty and the fact that there is no cruise for Sophomores and Freshmen at the end of the summer, is caused by lack of appropriation for the next fiscal year which commences on July 1. There will be instruction and drills during...