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...your account of the Reverend John F. O'Hara's appointment to the presidency of the University of Notre Dame [TIME, July 16], you are guilty of a serious misstatement. To accuse Father O'Hara of being disinterested in "his university's famed football team in action" is to belie TIME'S boast of accuracy. True, Notre Dame's new president has seen only a very few football games during his several years as the University's Prefect of Religion; but his not seeing more has been motivated by the fine spirit...
That was how it began. The Reverend Charles A. Livingston, descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, approved of dancing and cigarets. Or at least he did not disapprove of them. In little old Setauket, on Long Island's North Shore, that set up eddies of talk behind green-shuttered windows whenever he walked down the street. Plump, rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston...
...Reverend William D. O'Brien as Titular Bishop...
Grave and reverend seniors in their black silk gowns and dainty lace jabots are the 15 judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague, better known as the World Court. It is their privilege to meet in one of the pleasantest, most impressive of courtrooms, the great Peace Palace built by Andrew Carnegie in 1913. To underwrite their deliberations all member nations pay, through the League of Nations, annual sums totaling about $500,000 (each judge's salary is $18,000 a year), and are expected to lay before the court for final settlement their gravest...
...Dramatic Club will give four one-act plays in Boston next week: "The Horse Thieves" and "Five in the Morning" by Hermann Hagedorn '07, "The Heart of the Irishman," and "Death and the Dicers." Robert Benchley '13, played Reverend Clinch in "The Horse Thieves" and Teague O'Regan in "The Heart of the Irishman...