Word: dix
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...slight Englishman with penetrating eyes and close-cropped, greying hair is hard at work this week lecturing and conducting a retreat at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. Few of Hobart's students have ever before seen anything quite like Dom Gregory Dix. For one thing, he is a monk of the Benedictine order in the Church of England.* For another, he is a scholar who began specializing in military diplomacy and became one of the world's leading experts on Christian liturgy...
Beautiful Fossil. At 23 Gregory Dix became a history don at Oxford, but after a couple of years the job began to bore him. When a friend told him that missionary teachers were needed to train African natives in the ministry, he volunteered. After three years, desperately ill of dysentery, he returned, "leaving a large part of my insides in Africa," to face what seemed bound to be like a life of invalidism. He decided to devote his life to studying the origins of the Christian Church. In 1940 he became a monk, is now prior of Nashdom Abbey...
...primitive church at Hobart, as he will at numerous other U.S. universities and Episcopalian centers during the next six months. Wherever there is time for him to train assistants, he will also conduct a demonstration of the Mass as it was performed in approximately 200 A.D. Such Dix demonstrations aim to make Communion meaningful to Christians for whom it has been a beautiful but meaningless fossil of antique forms...
...Oldest: Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer's "Dorothy Dix" (since...
...Orleans, Dorothy (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) Dix, most durable (since 1896) of all the advice-to-the-lovelorn columnists, who admits to being almost 80, was in Touro Infirmary after suffering a stroke...