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Oct 1893
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Swamiji accepted invitations for lectures in neighboring towns. (ND 1.165)
Oct 1893
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Swamiji received an invitation from the Slayton Lyceum Lecture Bureau to make a tour of America. (LSV 1.441)
Oct 1893
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von Bergen was one of those delegates who later developed a friendship with Swamiji. (ND 1.165)
Oct 1893
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Swamiji visited number of places in America. (LSV 1.442)
Oct 1893
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One also discovers details of his itinerary. It is now known, for instance, that through October and most of November of 1893 the Swami remained in Chicago, lecturing in and around that city. (LSV 1.442)
Oct 1893
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Swamiji gave various lectures during his 7 to 8 weeks stay in Chicago. (LSV 1.442)
Oct 1893
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The first information regarding the Evanston lectures was discovered in the Chicago Evening Journal of September 29, 1893, in the form of a preliminary announcement: (ND 1.166)
Oct 1893
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The first announcements in the Evanston papers of this lecture course appeared in the Press and the Index, September 23, four days before the close of the Parliament. The announcement in the Press read as follows: (ND 1.167)
Oct 1893
News reports
The comprehensive News Report in the Index of October 7. (ND 1.167)
Oct 1893
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We need not give here the report on the lectures that appeared in the Press of the same date, for nothing additional is to be learned from it except that "Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Herbert entertained the lecturers at her residence Thursday evening, and here the third lectures were delivered." (Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Herbert, incidentally, had spoken before the Universal Religious Unity Congress at the Parliament on the same day, September 23, as had Swamiji.) (ND 1.169)
Oct 1893
Letter
Swamiji's letter to Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods on October 10, 1893. (ND 1.169 LSV 1.443)
Oct 1893
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There were tickets for admission to swamiji's lecture in a relatively small town 'Streator'. (ND 1.170)
Oct 1893
News reports
But although the lecture was well attended, the Daily Free Press of October 9 ran the following somewhat dreary review: (ND 1.170)
Oct 1893
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It is clear from the above report that the American press, for one reason or another, did not always give Swamiji an enthusiastic reception. (ND 1.171)
Oct 1893
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To date, these reports are all we have been able to gather in connection with his side trips from Chicago, although undoubtedly there are others waiting to be found. (ND 1.171)
Oct 1893
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Everywhere and in all situations of life, Swamiji was a sannyasi. (LSV 1.445)
Oct 1893
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Mrs. Hales recalls Swamiji's state of mind. (ND 1.171)
Oct 1893
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Six photographs were taken of Swamiji at session of Parliament of Religion. All were autographed and inscribed with English translations from Sanskrit moottoes. (ND 1.172)
Oct 1893
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It was through the kindness of the late Swami Vishwananda, then in charge of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society in Chicago, that these photographs and other invaluable material regarding Swamiji was discovered by the Swami Vishwananda. (ND 1.173)
Oct 1893
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Swami Vishwananda received in 1939 from Sarat Chandra Chakravarti, a disciple of Swamiji disclosing a valuable information about Swamiji. (ND 1.174)
Oct 1893
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While in America Swamiji was making every effort to fit himself in with Western customs and manners. (LSV 1.446)
Oct 1893
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Swamiji lived at a transcendant state when the world was his for the asking! (ND 1.174)
Oct 1893
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The states of meditation and recollection were always with him. Writes Sister Nivedita of his early days in the West: (ND 1.174 LSV 1.446)
Oct 1893
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Swamiji, in his effort to give the American people a true picture of India and Hinduism, so he lost no opportunity to study the methods of the industrial and economic systems of the West. (LSV 1.446)
Oct 1893
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Referring to this period of the Swamiji's life, the Chicago newspaper Interocean wrote in September of 1894, almost a year after the Parliament: (LSV 1.447)
Oct 1893
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In Chicago, Swamiji tried to comprehend the spirit of Western life. (LSV 1.447)
Oct 1893
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The Hales were excellent hosts, treating him from the first as a cherished member of the family and understanding him, perhaps not fully, but with the unquestioning insight of love. (ND 1.175)
Oct 1893
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During Swamiji's stay in America many small incedents took place like this. (ND 1.175)
Oct 1893
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During the stay at Hale's House, Swamiji jotted down in pencil a series of notes on the subjects of reason, faith, and love. These are reproduced as under: (ND 1.175)
Oct 1893
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Madame Emma Calve, the celebrated opera singer, who later became his ardent devotee, wrote in her autobiography of her first meeting with Swmiji. (LSV 1.449)
Oct 1893
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A story of an encounter between the Swami and John D. Rockefeller, the fabulously wealthy American financier. Emma Calve related the incident, which may have taken place in the early part of 1894. (LSV 1.451)
Oct 1893
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It is still not known exactly when Swamiji felt it advisable to sign up with a lecture bureau. Unfortunately, we cannot be much more precise than the Life, which tells us that "it must have been in the very late autumn or the early winter months when, to use his own expression, he `began to whirl to and fro.' (ND 1.179)
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