Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of his school, had spread into all lands, when he was called away from his cherished studies to be an archbishop and a cardinal. A dozen years later his country was overwhelmed by a war conducted with a barbarity armed by all the resources of civilization. In that time of gloom his voice was to his flock a consolation, his face was a benediction. Four and a half long years...
...Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, a man who, in the desolation of his country, stood as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land...
...leaders for the future, but also to keep this place so that it may in the future be able to produce new leaders. The graduates and faculty cannot do this. It rests with you whether or not the College comes through this period with her standards unlowered. As the Archbishop of York has said: 'You must keep the flag of the College flying...
...Archbishop of York has come and gone, but his words remain with us as a revelation to some and a reminder to all of the great part our mother universities have played in the war. We have seen Harvard much affected, but compared to Oxford and Cambridge the changes here have been insignificant. The academic life at these English colleges is nearly at a standstill; only a handful of wounded soldiers and physically unfit still work at their old tasks. Many of the colleges have quartered in them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic...
...Ships, more ships, and still more ships." This time it is the Archbishop of York who utters these words. The British need and the American are exactly alike. It has been told and reiterated and emphasized we know not how often by the United States Shipping Board, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, the War Department and commercial bodies that feel the pinch of overseas transport shortage. Yet the total output of all the shipyards in America and the allied countries does not come up to the requirements for providing the nations and their armies with such supplies as are considered necessary...