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...destiny" is, according to Coffee, gradually taking over the Divinity School. This process, he says, is indicated by the dropping of Church History 4 from the school's curriculum, and by the addition to the faculty of "brilliant minds who devote their brilliance to the resuscitation of the 13th century, and to the attacking of Positivism and everything it stands...
...motion was even made to tender the organization's support to gubernatorial candidate Robert F. Murphy. Murphy has stated that he would refuse endorsement by the A.D.A. state organization. The H.L.U. membership contented itself with endorsing the candidacies of Democrat James Gardner for Congress in the 13th District, and Democrat Summer Kaplan of Brookline for state representative. Kaplan himself addressed the group in the early stages of last night's meeting...
Died. Kokichi Mikimoto, 95, onetime noodle merchant who became the world's largest producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international...
Meanwhile, in Sever 17, three of the History Department's best, Professor Langer and Associate Professors Wolff and Frye, tackle the Middle East since the end of the 13th century. Ottoman Empire sheiks and Balkan intrigues are subject matters for this, History...
...clustered islets of Murano, a short gondola ride from Venice, master glassblowers have huffed and puffed since the 13th century, producing some of the world's finest glass. For centuries. Murano glassmakers isolated themselves from alien ideas, but lately the masters have been experimenting with a new form-a collaboration between glassblowers and great modern painters...