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...taking graduate courses in the University, with the nations of which they will be the representatives, are as follows: Vincent Phen, China; Gerhart Jentsch, Austria; C. S. Pexas, Greece; G. N. Tanikawe, Japan; B. G. Ohlin, Sweden; Said Dabbus, Turkey; Zygmunt Rudolph, Poland; Sigrud Fjaer, Norway; Jules Roman, Belgium...
...Church toward the Soviet Government is not without a parallel in modern history. When the French revolution broke out against the privileged classes, one of the first things that happened was the confiscation of church property, which was only part of the general outburst against the clergy and the Roman Catholic religion. It was the same way in Russia. The church was communized despite the indignant voice and obstructive tactics of the priests. As in France, so in Russia the clergy were the first dissentients to recognize a revolutionary Government as a fait accompli. The All Russian Church Council identifies...
...great attachment of the peasants to the Habsburg family is not sentimental but religious. In 1001 Pope Silvester II gave King Stephen I a crown (which is still used) in recognition of his invaluable work in constructing Hungary, cementing the Magyar nationality and firmly establishing the Hungarian Church-Roman Catholic. The Habsburgs, having worn the Holy Crown, are the only family that are eligible to ascend the throne-so think the peasants. The attachment of the peasants is not to a royal family but to the Crown, which means everything to them...
...Some critics rate it as Bach's greatest work. Others call it the greatest Mass ever written, with Beethoven's Mass in D as the only possible disputant for the honor, which leads to the interesting and meaningful consideration that what is possibly the highest piece of Roman liturgical music was written by the devout Lutheran, Bach, who was capelmeister at St. Thomas' Evangelical Church in Leipzig! The moral seems to be that the Mass is so superb a musical form, such a tempting subject for the composer of music, that it quite transcends any points...
...York. According to figures from the office of the Presbytery of New York, there are 1,660 churches and synagogues in the city for 81 denominations: 1,948,000 Roman Catholics, 1,941,000 Protestants and 1,640,000 Jews...