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When the smarter trains of the Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific lines moved out of Chicago last week, there was that about them which roused racial comment. Above the tidy uniforms of the club car attendants there shone, not the usual smiling Negro faces, but twinkling Oriental faces, the faces...
The musical conspiracy hatching between Composer and Prince was a project to interpret for Occidental instruments of music the piercing quarter, eight and sixteenth tones beloved of Japanese musicians. Prince Tokugawa, founder of the first Japanese Symphony Orchestra, was not slow to summon tuneful minions who entertained his guest. Attentive...
The Archbishop of Syria, S. A. Barasaum, visited the Widener Library and the Semitic Museum yesterday on a tour of the University. His Eminence was especially interested in the collection of Oriental literature, which he saw in the Library, and the Rendell Harris collection of Arabic and Syriac manuscripts.
*The Society of Rosicrucians (Rosenkreuzer) dates from early in the 13th Century, when it was more a class of isolated individuals than an organized cult. The members were Europeans, mostly Germans. During the Reformation they favored Lutheranism as opposed to Roman Catholicism. The "society" was popularly supposed to take its...
To the spiritual leadership of that congregation three years ago went Rabbi Solomon Goldman, more learned in Talmud than even Mr. Katz, but slightly, very slightly less Orthodox. He suggested and, through synagog politics, persuaded the men & women to sit together during his services. That innovation was terrible to righteous...