Holt (HAMILTON an American editor)
HAMILTON, an American editor; born in Brooklyn, in 1872. He graduated from Yale University in 1894. courses at Colum- He took post-graduate bia. From 1897 to 1913 he was managing editor of the "Independent" and was editor and owner of that publication after 1913. He lectured much on economic subjects in the United States and in foreign countries. He was special lecturer of the World Peace Foundation and was Bromley lecturer on journalism at Yale University in 1917. His published writings include "Undistin- (hol-op-tik'e-us), guished Americans" (1906); ; and "Commercialism and Journalism" (1909).
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Holt (HENRY an American author)
HENRY, an American author and publisher; born in Baltimore in 1840. He graduated from Yale University in 1862 and afterward studied law at Columbia. He began the publishing business with G. P. Putnam in 1863, and ten years later founded the publishing company of Henry Holt & Co. He was a member of the first executive committee on Simplified Spelling. He wrote several novels, including "Calmire-Man He Sturmseet Man and Nature" (1892); and Man" (1905). He took great interest in psychic questions and published in 1914 "On the Cosmic Relations." In the same year he founded and became editor of the "Unpopular Review."
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Holt (WINIFRED an American sculptor)
WINIFRED, an American sculptor. She was born in New York and was educated at private schools and Brearley School, New York. She studied anatomy, drawing and sculpture at Florence, and elsewhere. She has exhibited at the National Sculpture Society, and Architectural League, New York, and at Berlin. Her chief commissions have been portraits, busts, and bas-reliefs. She founded the New York Association for the Blind, and through her efforts many branches of the Association have been opened. She organized, in 1915, the Phare de Bordeaux, Cordeaux, the first lighthouse for the blind on the continent, and also the Phare de France, opened by the French President in 1916. During the European war she was president of the Comité Franco-Americain pour les Aveugles de la Guerre. Her books include "Life of Henry Fawcett"; "Beacon for the Blind."
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Holy Alliance
a league concluded at Paris, Sept. 26, 1815, between Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, Francis of Austria, and Frederick William III. of Prussia, and signed with their own hands, and without the countersign of a minister. Despite a declaration of its high and holy purpose, its aim was to maintain the power and influence of the existing dynasties, to uphold absolute monarchy, and suppress republican movements. Indications that the purposes of the Holy Alliance were likely to be extended to the small republics a sweet-smelling grass belonging to the of South America gave origin to the MONROE DOCTRINE (q. v.). It was offered for signature to all the European Powers except the Pope and Sultan of Turkey, and accepted by all except Great Britain. The events of 1848 broke up the Holy Alliance.
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Holy City
an appellation given by different peoples to that particular city whence proceed all their religious traditions and worship. By Jew and Christian Jerusalem is so named; by Catholics, Rome; by Mohammedans, Damascus, Mecca, and Medina; by the Hindus, Benares; by the Mohammedans of India, Allahabad; by the ancient Incas, Cuzco.
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Holy Cross
an order of Augustin ian canons, suppressed in the 17th century. Also a religious order established in 1834 in France. The members devote themselves to education and works of mercy. Also a society consisting of clerical members of the ritualistic school of the English Church. It was founded in 1855.
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Holy Cross College
an educational institution in Worcester, Mass.; founded in 1843 under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 50; students, 625; volumes in the library, 45,000; president, Rev. James J. Curlin, S. J.
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Holy Family
the infant Saviour, the Virgin Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, Anna, and John the Baptist. A picture which all or the most of the subordinate personages are introduced is called a "holy family."
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Holy Fire
a flame at Jerusalem maintained by the Greek and Armenian priests in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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Holy Ghost
the Holy Spirit; the third person in the Trinity, whom the Saviour promised to send to comfort His disciples (John xiv:, xv:, and xvi.).
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Holy Ghost
ORDER OF, an order of male and female hospitallers, founded by Guy, son of William, Count of Montpellier, toward the end of the 12th century, for the relief of the poor, the infirm and foundlings. After the middle of the 18th century it was united with the order of St. Lazarus by Clement XIII. This was also the name of the principal military order in France, instituted in 1578 by Henry III., abolished in 1789, revived at the Restoration, and again abolished in 1830. HOLY GRASS (Hierochloe borealis), tribe Phalarideæ, about a foot high, with a brownish glossy lax panicle. It is sometimes strewed on the floors of churches on festival days, whence its name.
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Holy Island
a name for Ireland, from the number of saints in its calendar. Also Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, because of the monks that formerly flocked thither. Also the island of Rügen, so named by Varini. Also a name now generally given to Lindisfarne, on the coast of Northumberland, where the famous St. Cuthbert ruled over a Saxon abbey founded 635. It is a peninsula insulated at high tide.
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Holy League
a league, founded in 1576, to prevent Henry of Navarre, who at the time was a Protestant, from ascending the French throne. At his becoming a Roman Catholic, in 1593, the league was dissolved and he became king under the title of Henry IV. The name was also given to a combination formed in 1508 by Pope Julius II. with Louis XII. of France, Maximilian of Germany, Ferdinand III. of Spain, and some Italian princes, against Venice.
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Holy of Holies
in Judaism, the inner or most sacred apartment, first to the Tabernacle, then of the Temple, into which none was permitted to enter but the high priest, and he only once a year, and then "not without blood." It was separated from the Holy Place or Outer Chamber by a veil.
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Holy Places
the sites in Palestine connected with the ministry and death of Christ, especially those traditionally located within the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The Greek and Latin Churches both claim the custody of these sacred spots, the Russians supporting the pretentions of the former, the French those of the latter. A dispute about these holy places led, in 1853, to the Russo-Turkish War, followed, in 1854, by the Crimean War.
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