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Bravest of martyrs, John Huss (c. 1373-1415) was the foremost intermediary in passing on from English Wycliffe to German Luther the torch which eventually kindled the Reformation. As such, he himself became physically a torch, burned at the stake for heresy with ecstatic words upon his lips: "In the truth of that gospel which ... I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die!" Such a spirit, rekindled in Czechoslovakia, stands to them for all that has cloven their new, secular republic away from the Holy and Apostolic and Most Catholic oppressions of the fallen House of Habsburg...
...torch from Cleveland blazed at the national convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America in Manhattan last week. The rabbis there encouraged the flame with the breath of their warm agreement. No torch of Orthodox Judaism ought ever...
...Cleveland torch was Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...
Chorus from the Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan O Sacrum Convivium Lodovico Grossi Viadana My Bonny Lass Thomas Morley Christmas Carols a. Christmas Songs Gustav Holst b. Touro-Louro-Louro c. Bring a Torch Old French Carol d. Les Anges dans nos Campagnes Old French Carol Morning Hymn Arnold Krug Der Gang Zum Liebchen Brahms Choeur de Chameliers Franck
...Yale News. The passing of the Greek Department at Harvard brushes away our last hold on culture. We are led to believe that as Apollo had Marsvas skinned a mile, so the Business School, suckled in the years of its infancy in the Classical Library, carries on the torch of culture. And I write with more feeling because not only the truth about Harvard has been exposed, but also about myself. For the five courses in Greek which the writer pointed out as constituting the curriculum at Harvard constitutes at the same time my sole instruction in that department...