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Paul Claudel, poet of high consequence, Roman Catholic mystic, French Ambassador to the U. S., (TIME, March 21), sailed for France last week on the S. S. Paris, to attend the marriage of his daughter, Marie, to M. Christian Vonam, rising diplomatist...
...Mantua, cross-legged tailors were busy last week cutting scores of classic Roman togas from wide bolts of the traditional white woolen cloth. To make a toga for a wearer 5 ft. 8 in. tall, they snipped out a flattened semicircle, 17 ft. from tip to tip, and 5 ft. broad at the widest point. After binding the edges the toga was complete, was taken to the Accademia Vergiliana, famed Mantuan university. There, later in the week, arrived august professors from every Italian university; also from Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne and many another foreign seat of lore...
...Publius Vergilius Maro, "greatest Roman poet," author of the Aeneid, was born, strictly speaking, not at Mantua, but on a farm nearby...
...better to understand the part of organized religion in the world today, and the last five touched, more intimately on the religious problems and perplexities faced by the individual. The lectures were as follows: The first half: Prof. R. C. Cabot, "The Need of Religion"; Rev. A. F. Hickey, "Roman Catholocism"; Rabbi S. S. Wise, Judaism"; Dean W. L. Sperry, "Protestantism"; Dr. H. S. Fosdick, "The Future of the Church." The second half: Dr. Frederick Palmer, "Is Immortality Necessary?"; Prof. J. H. Woods, "Philosophy of Religion"; Prof J. B. Pratt, "Faith and Workship"; Prof. F. G. Peabody, "Social Teachings...
...Melita, island of honey. But only by its preponderant power are the book's weaknesses found out. Taken whole it is a book of a noble man seen steadfastly-Saul the scourge, first of the law, then of the Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days...