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...John B. Peterson, rector of the St. John's Seminary at Brighton, is to be the speaker at the meeting to be held in the Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. His subject will be "Roman Catholicism...
Long before Chaucer began to build the English language, long before Buonarroti sketched his plans for St. Peter's, a British islander named Nicholas Breakspear became priest, then Abbot, then Cardinal, then Legate, then Pope, assuming the grand Roman Imperial name of Adrian (Hadrian) IV. And never before or since has an islander been Pope...
Deploring the lack of knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages at Harvard, Professor W. R. Halliday, of the University of Liverpool, who is lecturing on Greek and Roman history during the second half-year, in the absence of Professor W. S. Ferguson in Europe, said, "Probably because both Latin and Greek are rather difficult to master, students at Harvard, as well as in Liverpool, tend to avoid these studies. I find that American students are eager to learn and co-operate splendidly with the professor. I have never seen a finer library than Widener, for the organization is such...
...proper to the coronation of the Peepul's annointed, are waved aside. The only vestige of the grandeur that was Rome which has escaped the austerity of the censor is the badge, symbol of authority, and lineal descendant of the fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear one of these badges upon the left suspender of his overalls, and every badge, to escape the suspicion of favoritism, will read: "Admit one Good only on the date punched...
...insolent attitude toward the Kaiser and the shelling of the Imperial train were unnecessary acts; and the royal state in which he now lives has firmly impressed upon a large percentage of the Hungarian people that the cavalry Admiral Inquisitioner of the White Terror, the Protestant apostate (he embraced Roman Catholicism when he became Regent, ''not unmindful," say some, "of the Hungarian basic law" which, limits succession to the throne to Roman Catholics") is not only a traitor to his King, but a man deserving the utmost contempt from the country and the world at large...