Word: abbot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standards at North American College are high: 30% of the class usually fails to finish. As a training ground for U.S. Catholic hierarchy, the college's record is spectacular; of 1,900 priests graduated in the past 100 years, 115 have become bishops, one became a Trappist abbot, and six (sole survivor: New York's Spellman) later wore the cardinal...
Also the other House Masters; Mayor Thomas M. McNamara, City Manager John J. Curry '19, Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, and other representatives from the City; Mark de Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, who is a member of the Josiah Quincy family, representatives from Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbot, architects, and the staff and members of Quincy House...
...days they rose at 4:30 a.m., cleaned their own rooms and swept the temple grounds, and meditated. Anyone who found his mind wandering was supposed to unclasp his hands as a signal, whereupon a waiting monk gave him three sharp thwacks with a stick. Twice a day Chief Abbot Sogen Asahina, 59, lectured them. "When you are in your bus, seated at the wheel or talking to passengers, and feel fatigue overcoming you, stop what you are doing, and for ten minutes sit upright with your hands clasped. Empty your mind of everything. Just meditate. After ten minutes, drive...
...course, Abbot Asahina turned his quickie Zenist bus drivers loose with the words: "Continue to meditate, or your light...
...Valley Falls, R.I. The good fathers viewed the novice with some alarm. The boy already stood 6 ft. tall, weighed close to 200 Ibs., and the way he piled through a plate of turnips suggested strongly that he was riot meant to mortify the flesh. After two years the abbot gently told...