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Detroit (12 Feb - 23 Feb 1894)
Detroit (12 Feb - 23 Feb 1894)
Total Records Found: 89
11 Feb 1894
News reports
News Report of Free Press on Swamiji's arrival in Detroit. (ND 1. 296)
12 Feb 1894
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In February, from the l3th to the 23rd, and most of March, from the 9th to the 30th, he lectured in Detroit, primarily at the Unitarian Church. During these two periods he was the guest for about four weeks all told of Mrs. John J. Bagley, the widow of the ex-Governor of Michigan and a lady of rare culture and unusual spirituality. (LSV 1.460)
12 Feb 1894
News reports
During the five weeks or so that Swami Vivekananda lectured in Detroit, the press made the most of this extraordinary, famous, and controversial visitor 'from the East' . It would be well to quote here what the Detroit Free Press, one of the leading journals not only of the city but of the nation, wrote concerning him, for the description of the Swami given in this paper, on February 11, 1894, was typical of what was printed of him throughout his tour: (LSV 1.466)
13 Feb 1894
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Swamiji arrived in Detroit from Chicago. (LSV 1.459 ND 1.289)
14 Feb 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From DETROIT (CW SV 9.009 LSV 1.459 ND 1.289)
Feb 1894
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In the Life and other biographies very little has been said of Swamiji's visit to Detroit in 1894, and one is left with the impression that this city was just another on his itinerary where he delivered a few lectures and received the usual amount of both acclaim and criticism. (ND 1. 287)
Feb 1894
Analysis
About Swamiji's work in Detroit (ND 1. 287)
14 Feb 1894
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A warm welcome was accorded to Swamiji by Bagely family in the evening of next day of his arrival in Detroit (ND 1.290 LSV 1.460)
14 Feb 1894
News reports
News reports of Detroit Journal at Detroit. (ND 1. 291 LSV 1.460)
14 Feb 1894
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One untoward incident occurred during the reception. (ND 1. 294)
14 Feb 1894
News reports
The Detroit Tribune commented more satisfactorily upon the reception, and in the following report one can almost see Swamiji in his robe and turban beaming upon thc ladies and gentlemen who flocked about him. (ND 1. 292)
Feb 1894
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Mrs. Bagley was a woman of unusual spirit. She was undoubtedly severely criticized as she was the hostess to a 'heathen'. (ND 1. 294)
Feb 1894
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About Mrs.Bagley, hostess of Swamiji on his first visit at Detroit. (ND 1. 295)
14 Feb 1894
News reports
The day after his arrival Swamiji granted an interview to a reporter from the Free Press, during which he touched on the same problem as he had during a discussion in Memphis that of combining material power with spirituality. The development of a new type of man who would combine the "energy of the lion with the gentleness of the lamb," typifying the union of West and East, was later to take a prominent place in Swamiji's thought. (ND 1. 298)
14 Feb 1894
News reports
News report from Free Press (ND 1. 298)
14 Feb 1894
News reports
The Detroit Evening News took its copy directly from the above, prefacing it, however, with a touch of sarcasm: (ND 1. 303)
Feb 1894
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Swamiji remained in Detroit from February 12 to 23, and then again from March 9 to 30. Left long lasting impressions on noted individuals (ND 1. 304)
Feb 1894
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In this connection Mrs. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, the American poetess, better known as Sara Bard Field, tells of an incident that was related to her by a Miss Marguerite Cook. Miss Cook, a teacher of German in a Detroit high school at the time of Swamiji's visit, attended one of his lectures at the Unitarian Church. Although of a stolid German nature and ordinarily unimpressionable, she was deeply struck by Swamiji's power and, for the first time in her life, felt an impulse to congratulate a speaker. Shaking hands with him after his lecture, she felt suddenly overwhelmed and at a loss for words. Swamiji held her hand for several moments. "I shall never forget his searching look," she told Mrs. Wood many years later. "I was so aware of his greatness and holiness that I couldn't bear to wash my hand for three days!" It is little wonder, considering Swamiji's effect upon his audience, that the city was in an uproar. (ND 1. 304)
Feb 1894
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The background story of appearance of Swamiji's four lectures in Vedant Kesari of February 1924 i.e. after 30 years. (ND 1. 306)
14 Feb 1894
News Reports
News report on Swamiji's conversation on 'Religious Harmony' - The Detroit Free Press (CW SV 7.286)
Feb 1894
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There were two misconceptions regarding India prevalent in the 1890s. While on the one hand she was maligned as a land of immorality, idolatry, and superstition and in crying need of Christian missionaries, on the other hand she was lauded as a realm of mystery and marvel where "mahatmas" performed wonderful feats of occult power and telepathically communicated cosmic secrets to the elect, This latter view resulted in a kind of delirium in which occultism, spirituality, super science, and the turban were hopelessly confused. (ND 1. 325)
14 Feb 1894
News Reports
It was in the throes of this fever that the Evening News of February 14 had greeted Swamiji on his arrival in Detroit with the following article: (ND 1. 325)
14 Feb 1894
Writing
Of the Swami's first visit to Detroit, Mrs. Mary C. Funke; who was to become his ardent disciple, wrote many years after: (LSV 1.466)
15 Feb 1894
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture ' Manners and Customs of India' delivered on 15.2.1894 at Detroit (CW SV 8.204)
Feb 1894
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The head lines and peragraphs that are not reproduced in 'complete works' (ND 1. 306)
Feb 1894
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This was the first bombshell that Swamiji dropped in Detroit. The lecture was quoted in the Evening News, the Tribune, and the Journal as well as in the Free Press, and there was probably no literate person in the city who was not now aware that Christian missionaries, for all their talk, were not doing any too well in India. (ND 1.308)
15 Feb 1894
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Although the other reports of the lecture were, for the most part, repetitious of that in the Free Press, the Tribune of February 15 adds considerably to our knowledge of what Swamiji said and helps to explain some of the subsequent criticisms. (ND 1.308)
15 Feb 1894
News Reports
With the exception of those portions that are repetitious of the Free Press report, which I have omitted, the Tribune covered the lecture as follows: (ND 1.308)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
Bishop Ninde, who introduced Swamiji to the auduince during first lecture at Detroit was shaken up at the end of Swamiji's speech and wrote his explanation in a letter to editor of Free Press. (ND 1.310)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
News report on Swamiji HINDOO PHILOSOPHY in Detroit Free Press. (CW SV 3.492)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
Needless to say, when on Thursday evening, February 15, Swamiji gave his second lecture, the good bishop did not introduce him. And sad to say, although the public crowded into the Unitarian Church, the Detroit press had been intimidated by the bishop's repudiation of his Hindu friend. Methodism was strong in the city, and Bishop Ninde, a stalwart figure, was well known and highly respected among the orthodox. Thus the reports of Swamiji's second lecture, "Hindu Philosophy," are meager and, with one exception, misrepresentative. (ND 1. 314)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
The Journal of February 16 took a safe stand beside the bishop, whom its reporter had interviewed: (ND 1. 315)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
The Free Press of February 16 was as cautious as the Journal in its report on Swamiji's second lecture. It was from the following article of February 16 that the Michigan Christian Advocate would pick up the phrase, "cute little jabs at the Christian religion" : (ND 1. 316)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
It is from the Tribune, which consistently upheld Swamiji, that we are able to get some idea of his lecture "Hindu Philosophy." Although the Tribune reporter seems to have been more than a little at sea and to have taken somewhat sketchy notes, his account, which appeared on February 16, was unbiased and gives proof that the lecture by no means consisted of "cute little jabs at the Christian religion" (ND 1. 317)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
News report of Tribune. (ND 1. 317)
16 Feb 1894
News Reports
In the tense atmosphere of Detroit no criticism of Swamiji was let pass without public rejoinder. Through the letter columns of the Journal of February 16 one of Swamiji's most articulate defenders, O. P. Deldoc, whose retort to Bishop Ninde has been reproduced above, was the first to give the Evening News a staunch reply: (ND 1. 327)
Feb 1894
News Reports
Another retort to the Evening News was included much later in a letter to the editor of the Free Press. (ND 1. 330)
Feb 1894
News Reports
News Reports in Michigan Christian Advocate of February 24. (ND 1.313)
17 Feb 1894
Notes
But the most pertinent and conclusive reply to the editorial was given by Swamiji himself when the Evening News, more by way of self justification than apology. (ND 1. 330)
17 Feb 1894
Interview
This interview was printed on February 17 by Evening News. (ND 1. 330)
17 Feb 1894
News Reports
The first of the three long and forceful letters ridiculing and reprimanding the bishop appeared in the Free Press. (ND 1. 320)
17 Feb 1894
News Reports
News report on Swamiji's lecture on 'MIRACLES' in Evening News. (CW SV 3.495)
18 Feb 1894
News Reports
The second of the three long and forceful letters ridiculing and reprimanding the bishop appeared in the Free Press. (ND 1. 322)
18 Feb 1894
News Reports
Commenting on his lecture of February 17, 1894, the Detroit Free press reports: (LSv 1.467)
18 Feb 1894
News Reports
News report on Swamiji's lectre on 'THE DIVINITY OF MAN' in Detroit Free Press. (CW SV 3.496)
18 Feb 1894
News Reports
By the time Swamiji gave his third lecture, "The Divinity of Man," at the Unitarian Church, on Saturday, February 17, the Detroit newspapers had recovered from their reticence and reported upon it at some length. The first two paragraphs of the report in the Free Press of February 18 have been quoted in the Life and the next five paragraphs in volume four of the Complete Works under the title "Is India a Benighted Country?" But although much of the following article will be familiar to the reader, I will nevertheless reproduce it in its entirety, for it gives so excellent a picture of both Swamiji and his Detroit audience. Moreover, so far as I know, the latter half of this report has not hitherto been reprinted. (ND 1. 333)
18 Feb 1894
Letter
The letter Mary Funke wrote to Swami Brahmananda, which has been published in the Vedanta Kesari, gives a much better picture of Swamiji in the process of answering questions than does the above report. She wrote: (ND 1. 338)
18 Feb 1894
News Reports
News Report in Tribune on Swamiji's lecture on 17th ( Saturday ) (ND 1. 339)
18 Feb 1894
News Reports
This same paper (the Tribune, February 18) discussed the importance of Swamiji's first three lectures-"Manners and Customs of India," "Hindu Philosophy," and "The Divinity of Man" in an editorial entitled "The Hindu Among Us" : (ND 1. 340)
18 Feb 1894
News reports
Excerpts of an oracle that appeared in the Tribune reveals that Swamiji's desire to collect funds for his motherland was still uppermost in his mind during the visit to Detroit (ND 1. 366)
18 Feb 1894
Notes
The Swamiji notes two most remarkable things in America. And gives his frank opinion when asked: (ND 1. 367)
18 Feb 1894
Notes
Mr. Fred H. Seymour writes about Swamiji's criticism of Missionaries (ND 1. 368)
18 Feb 1894
News Reports
This was, of course, the voice of liberal Christianity-a voice, which, added to Swamiji's own, was enough to drive missionary minded Christians into a veritable frenzy. Swamiji's opponents, however, almost invariably based their criticism upon written reports of his lectures. Because of this, a whole week went by and he had already left Detroit before the pulpits resounded with attacks against his provocative Saturday evening lecture, "The Divinity of Man," which was not printed until Sunday morning-too late for the sermons. (ND 1. 342)
18 Feb 1894
Notes
In the meantime, the liberal ministers who had heard his lecture had much to say. On Sunday, February 18, the Reverend Reed Stuart of the Unitarian Church delivered a sermon entitled "The Gate Opening Toward the East," and Rabbi Grossman of the Temple Beth El spoke on "What Vive Kananda Has Taught Us." Condensed versions of both these sermons were given in the Detroit Journal of February 19. The Detroit Tribune of the same date, however, gave a more complete text of each. (ND 1. 342)
19 Feb 1894
News reports
The following articles are excerpts from the Tribune reports on a sermon entitled 'The gate opening toward the East.' (ND 1. 343)
19 Feb 1894
News reports
The Reverend Rabby Grossman's sermon on Swamiji's lecture when he revisited Detroit in 1896. (ND 1. 345)
19 Feb 1894
Notes
Both these sermons reflected the current dissatisfaction with Christian orthodoxy and the need for a vital religion undivorced from the intellectual, emotional, and social conditions of the modern world. It was a need which Swamiji's teachings both stimulated and filled. But the Evening News, which in a later article called itself "an arbiter of the truth and an impartial friend or critic of all creeds and dogmas," took a somewhat resentful attitude toward the idea that the West could learn from the East. (ND 1. 348)
19 Feb 1894
Notes
While Swamiji was making enemies, he was at the same time making numerous friends among the cultured and intellectual circles of Detroit. (ND 1. 362)
19 Feb 1894
News reports
A report in the "Personal and Social" column of the Detroit Journal tells of the various luncheons, teas, and dinners given For Swamiji during his first week in Detroit. (ND 1. 362)
19 Feb 1894
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Although Swamiji's first visit to Detroit extended from February 12 to 23, he had originally intended to stay only one week, giving a series of three lectures at the Unitarian Church. But the people the hundreds who had heard him speak both publicly and at private gatherings, and the hundreds more who wanted to hear him would not let him leave their city so soon. (ND 1. 370)
19 Feb 1894
News reports
It is seen by the following announcement in the Free Press of Monday, February 19, he was induced to give a Fourth lecture: (ND 1. 370)
19 Feb 1894
Notes
There was some confusion regarding the date on which this lecture was to be given. As has been seen above, it was announced, as late as February 19, as scheduled for Wednesday, February 21. Other papers made this same mistake in their "Amusement Columns," which must have misled all those who failed to check further, for actually Swamiji gave his fourth lecture on Tuesday, February 20. But although a correction did not appear in the papers until Tuesday morning, the confusion of dates did not confound too many. (ND 1. 371)
19 Feb 1894
Notes
The Unitarian Church was jammed, and one is reminded of Sister Christine's description of Swamiji's Detroit audiences: (ND 1. 371)
19 Feb 1894
Notes
The Free Press report on "The Love of God" was one of those which were sent by Mary Funke to Swami Brahmananda and has been reproduced (in slightly altered form) is volume eight of the Complete Works. The headlines and first paragraph of the actual report read as follows: (ND 1. 371)
20 Feb 1894
Notes
Notes of Swamiji's lecture THE LOVE OF GOD 2 at Unitarian Church. (CW SV 8.201)
20 Feb 1894
Notes
During this period the Swamiji discovered that the Slayton Lyceum Lecture Bureau was exploiting and defrauding him. (LSv 1.468)
20 Feb 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From Detroit about this lecture bureau. (CW SV 9.010 LSv 1.468)
Feb 1894
Notes
But by the time the Swami returned to Detroit in March; Mr. Palmer had dealt with the lecture bureau and got the fraudulent contract annulled. Thus the Swami's tour with the lecture bureau through the midwestern and southern States of America came to an end between the first and second visits to Detroit, and he was free. (LSv 1.468)
Feb 1894
Notes
Swamiji's break with the lecture bureau marks an important step in his post-Parliament life in America. (LSv 1.468)
Feb 1894
News Reports
The third of the three long and forceful letters ridiculing and reprimanding the bishop appeared in the Journal and was signed 'E.J.' It read in part as follows. (ND 1. 322)
Feb 1894
News Reports
Large percentage of the Detroit population both read and approved these letters. (ND 1. 324)
20 Feb 1894
News Reports
Thus the matter about 'Miracles in Hinduism' was settled. Later, the Evening News of February 20 was to boast at the end of a rather sour editorial: (ND 1. 331)
20 Feb 1894
News Reports
Excerpts from an editorial that appeared in the News on Rabbi Grossman's talk on "What Vive Kananda Has Taught Us" (ND 1. 348)
21 Feb 1894
News Reports
News report on Swamiji's 'THE LOVE OF GOD' in Detroit Tribune, dtd. 21.02.1894 at Detroit (CW SV 3.503 ND 1. 372)
Feb 1894
News Reports
The Journal also commented on "The Love of God" as follows: (ND 1. 373)
21 Feb 1894
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Swamiji's audience was mainly from high society.There existed so much bitterness between classes in the nineties that Swamiji was accused, along with other slander, of being exclusive! (ND 1. 374)
Feb 1894
News reports
One such criticism came in a letter dated March 20, 1894, to the editor of the Free Press from one who certainly had not heard all the lectures. (ND 1. 375)
21 Feb 1894
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It was at Swamiji's fifth lecture in this city, given at the insistence of his friends, that he blasted the rich for the excessive wealth they had so long believed to be theirs through the will of God. This now famous lecture was delivered at Mrs. Bagley's house on Wednesday afternoon, February 21, and the Free Press report of it has been printed in volume eight of the Complete Works, under the title "Hindus and Christians." (ND 1. 376)
21 Feb 1894
News reports
Free press report on Swamiji's lecture on 20th afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Bagley. (ND 1. 377)
21 Feb 1894
News reports
Notes of Swamiji's lecture HINDUS & CHRISTIANS 21.02.1894 at Detroit. (CW SV 8.209)
22 Feb 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HALE MRS.G W From DETROIT (CW SV 9.012 ND 1. 381)
22 Feb 1894
News reports
A short report of Swamiji's lecture appeared in the Journal and is interesting largely because of its headline: (ND 1.379)
23 Feb 1894
News Reports
Unfortunately, the first Sunday sermons preached against Swamiji are not available, but that they existed is evidenced from the following letter written by one of his anonymous defenders. This letter, which appeared in the Free Press, also gives a little information regarding the almost constant "following up" Swamiji endured: (ND 1. 350)
23 Feb 1894
News Reports
This letter from ' Justitia' started off a controversy in the Free Press letter column, "From Our Readers," that lasted through February. (ND 1. 352)
23 Feb 1894
News Reports
The account of all letters appeared in the Free Press letter column, "From Our Readers," that lasted through February. (ND 1. 353)
23 Feb 1894
News Reports
To judge from the following report in the Journal of Friday, February 23, Mrs. Bagley held a small farewell tea for her departing guest: (ND 1. 380)
23 Feb 1894
News Reports
Swamiji had been in Detroit less than two weeks, but there were, perhaps, few people who had not heard of him. On the evening of his departure, a miniature "Kananda" appeared at a children's fancy-dress party and was the hit of the evening. The Tribune covered the masquerade: (ND 1. 380)
23 Feb 1894
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Swamiji left for Ada - Ohio. (ND 1.382)
Mar 1896
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This two weeks' visit, during which he intended to hold two classes daily, morning and evening, was to be more or less private. (ND 4.002)
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