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...from stodgy Victorianism, memorialize the passing of its leader. . . . True in history he was King of all the Britons by the grace of God, (though actually by the grace of Parliament); Defender of the Faith-the English Faith-a Catholicism without a Pope (a title accorded to Henry VIII by the Pope); Emperor of India, living symbol and standard bearer of white civilization ruling over Asiatic peoples. But in life he was above all a gourmet; the symbol of the pleasures of life; dictator of modes; regulating all other ways of life to the way of enjoyment, and living...
...VIII. Introduction: The French department, under the present plan, requires three elementary courses: French A, 1, and 2, before a student with no training is able to take the advanced and literary French 6. French 1 and 2 cover very much the same ground, without conspicuous brilliance. We recommend that a course be formed that combines French 1 and 2, as follows...
...Group IV Memorial Hall Mr. Cram, Sec. 42, 43, Conf, Group III Memorial Hall Mr. Edson, Sec. 12, 21, Conf. Group V Memorial Hall Mr. Farley, Sec. 41, Conf. Group VI Memorial Hall Mr. Gleason, Sec. 2, Conf. Group VII Memorial Hall Mr. Hooing, Sec. 3, 22, Conf. Group VIII New Lect. Hall Mr. Jones, Sec. 23, 30, Conf. Group IX New Lect. Hall Mr. Lewis, Sec. 4 Conf. Group X New Lect. Hall Mr. Lynd, Sec. 5, 16, Conf. Group XI New Lect. Hall Mr. Marston, Sec. 17, Conf. Group XII New Lect. Hall Mr. Matterson...
Once King Henry VIII loved nothing better than to throw his arm about the neck of the author of Utopia and stroll with Sir Thomas More in his garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle...
Canonized along with Blessed Thomas will be his colleague John Cardinal Fisher who joined him in defying Henry VIII and losing his head. Canonization date: the Feast of St. Ives (May 19), patron of lawyers...