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...slip of the pen made invitingly easy by the Buchmanites, who also call themselves the Oxford Group. The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th Century in the Church of England, is associated with John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey, whose Tracts for the Times urged return to Catholic teachings and practices...
Somewhere on the banks of the Muscatatuck River, in the mid-19th Century, lived Jess Birdwell, Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when...
Protestant clergymen took the lead in founding the ivy-league colleges: Harvard (1636), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), Dartmouth (1769). Between 1830 and 1860 U.S. Methodists founded 34 colleges, U.S. Baptists 21. Clergymen dominated the faculties, often the boards of trustees. By the mid-19th Century, many of these same clergymen were teaching the Sunday school that became as American as the little red schoolhouse...
...Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after the mid-19th Century's Edouard Manet, preferred art's more-than-three-(or even 50-) year-olds-In his colossal, correct Lynnewood Hall at Elkins Park he showed only his best canvases, almost a year to the day before his death left to Washington's National Art Gallery...
None has caught it so understandingly as the 20 pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's essay on Yoshida-Torajiro, Japan's mid-19th Century fanatic on westernization, who used to keep awake for his midnight studies by putting mosquitoes up his sleeve. No recent book has probed the Japanese mind so deeply as the 20 pages of The Japanese Smile by Lafcadio Hearn, who became a Japanese subject, spent the rest of his life repudiating western civilization. Jujitsu. Yet "that mind," says Expert Kiralfy, "is our real enemy. Without it Emperor Hirohito's armies are just...