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Detroit (Mar - I 1896)
Detroit (Mar - I 1896)
Total Records Found: 58
Mar 1896
CE
Swami Vivekananda completed his second season of teaching in New York City in the last week of February, 1896. (ND 4.001)
Mar 1896
CE
Ever since Swamiji's return from England in the early part of December of 1895, he had been planning to visit Detroit and to hold classes in that "dynamic city" of the Midwest. (ND 4.001)
Mar 1896
CE
It so happened, however, that Swami Kripananda had arrived in Detroit three and a half days in advance of his guru. Only at the last minute had Kripananda decided to go to Detroit. (ND 4.003)
Mar 1896
CE
On February 27 Mr. Goodwin wrote to Mrs. Bull, who had recently returned to Cambridge from a visit to New York: (ND 4.004)
Mar 1896
CE
It does not seem probable that Swamiji would have requested Kripananda to announce his arrival in Detroit to the local newspapers. (ND 4.004)
1 Mar 1896
News reports
Kripananda called at the principal newspapers to have the announcement of the Swami's arrival published in the News papers and also started giving interviews to press. (ND 4.005)
1 Mar 1896
News reports
On Sunday afternoon, Kripananda had yet another interview with a representative from the Free Press, to whom Miss Hamilton may have introduced him. (ND 4.007)
2 Mar 1896
News reports
In the meanwhile, the Evening News had not been idle. Sniffing a good wrangle in the wind, that journal, always hostile to Swamiji, lost no time in calling on the Right Reverend J. M. Thoburn, a Christian missionary whose contempt For all things Indian could be counted on. (ND 4.008)
2 Mar 1896
Notes
Yet, one wonders how the photograph from which the drawing was made fell into the hands of the News in the first place. While it is conceivable that Swamiji's enemies in Detroit had somehow obtained it, it is more likely that Kripananda had imprudently lent the News his own copy. He was, in any case, suspect. (ND 4.009)
2 Mar 1896
News reports
This particular article of March 2, moreover, certainly referred to Swamiji. Its first part was, as Miss Waldo noted, a savage attack on him; the second part was, to be sure, an interview with Kripananda. Its text read in Full: (ND 4.010)
3 Mar 1896
News reports
The following day (March 3) the Detroit Tribune, which seems to have been little more than an echo of the EveningNews, printed a summary of Thoburn's attack under the headlines: (ND 4.013)
3 Mar 1896
News reports
Kripananda's refutation appeared in the Evening News of March 3: (ND 4.014)
3 Mar 1896
News reports
But the same day (March 3) on which it published Kripa¬nanda's brave but ineffectual attempt to set things straight, the Evening News also published an editorial which for sheer vulgarity outdid the Reverend Mr. Thoburn himself. It read: (ND 4.017)
3 Mar 1896
CE
Swamiji arrived in Detroit, where he had been invited to hold classes. (LSV 2.073)
Mar 1896
CE
Swamiji, with his faithful and efficient secretary-disciple, Josiah J. Goodwin, arrived in Detroit on the night of Tuesday, March 3, a day later than expected (ND 4.002)
Mar 1896
CE
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)
Mar 1896
CE
It is today a matter of history that in 1894 Swamiji had silenced the bigots of Detroit simply by his undeniable spiritual eminence. (ND 4.003)
Mar 1896
CE
Two years earlier he had drawn crowds to his lectures in Detroit and had been the subject of prolonged and heated controversy in the newspapers. And when he arrived in Detroit this time, he found that a similar controversy had been revived in the Press. (LSV 2.073)
Mar 1896
Notes
This was the frenzy into which the newspapers had worked themselves when Swamiji arrived in Detroit on the night of Tuesday, March 3. (ND 4.019)
5 Mar 1896
Letter
Mr. Goodwin indignantly wrote of the situation to Mrs. Bull. His letter, dated March 5, read: (ND 4.019)
5 Mar 1896
Letter
The crowds at Swamiji's second class, held on Wednesday evening, were as dense as they had been in the morning, if not more so. The scene was described by a Tribune reporter, whose write-up appeared the following day (March 5): (ND 4.020)
5 Mar 1896
News reports
While Swamiji held his classes at the Richelieu, the news¬papers raved on. "HOW ABOUT KANANDA?" the journal asked on March 5, and assuming the role of public guardian, followed this query with an editorial, which read in part: (ND 4.024)
6 Mar 1896
Letter
Miss Waldo wrote to Mrs. Bull from New York on March 6 containing a savage attack on the Swami. (ND 4.009)
6 Mar 1896
News reports
The following day the Detroit Tribune pursued another line of attack by plastering across its front page a three column wide caricature (a poor one) of Swamiji standing on a dais and reading from a book. (ND 4.024)
9 Mar 1896
Notes
Mr. Goodwin gave his own version of what must have been this same scene in a letter of March 9 to Mrs. Bull. (ND 4.021)
Mar 1896
Notes
How the attempted rearrangement of Swamiji's classes worked out is not known. (ND 4.022)
9 Mar 1896
News reports
On Monday, March 9, three of Detroit's leading newspapers reported on the sermon with similar articles. It will be enough to quote briefly here from that of the Tribune: (ND 4.025)
9 Mar 1896
Notes
And so on. Even the newspapers were embarrassed by the Reverend Mr. Thoburn's "Comparative Religions." Having stirred him into giving a sermon against Swamiji, they now reproved him in one or two editorials for his failure to exert an uplifting Christian influence on the people of Detroit. (ND 4.026)
9 Mar 1896
News reports
The article in which the rabbi was quoted appeared on March 9 and read in part: (ND 4.027)
11 Mar 1896
Notes
On March 11, a week after Swamiji's arrival in the city, Kripananda wrote to Mrs. Bull. (ND 4.022)
Mar 1896
Notes
Detroit's mixed reaction to Swamiji provides a clear picture of his position vis-a-vis the American religious scene at the end of the nineteenth century. (ND 4.023)
15 Mar 1896
Notes
Sometime during the second week in March Rabbi met Swamiji to clare up his own doubts, and as a result, the Rabbi offered his temple-the Temple Beth-El-for Swamiji's use on Sunday evening, March 15. (ND 4.028)
15 Mar 1896
Notes
The newspapers duly announced that Swamiji's lecture would commence at eight o'clock the following evening and would be free. The lecture would be at Templ Beth-El. The News Tribune published a long editorial clearly intended to dissuade all sensible people from attending the lecture. (ND 4.038)
15 Mar 1896
Notes
The people of Detroit were sorely deranged: they flocked to the Temple Beth-El that evening. (ND 4.039)
15 Mar 1896
Notes
The lecture was a stunning success. Two or three months later, when they were in London, Mr. Goodwin, recalling these American days, exclaimed to Swamiji, "Our biggest meeting was in Detroit. Nearly 6,000 people! That day your words came out with superhuman strength. I was mad with joy! Six thousand may have been an exaggeration, but even the Detroit newspapers had to admit that the temple had been packed solid. (ND 4.040)
Mar 1896
Notes
Swamiji had many friends in Detroit. (ND 4.029)
Mar 1896
Notes
Swamiji had less time than he had had in 1894 to accept formal invitations. Yet no doubt he often dined informally at the homes of his close friends, and no one could be as delightfully informal as Swamiji. (ND 4.029)
Mar 1896
Notes
There is no way of knowing how many disciples Swamiji made in Detroit, but that many people became his followers is certain, and to be a direct follower of his was no small matter. (ND 4.030)
Mar 1896
Notes
On March 11 Mr. Goodwin wrote to Mrs. Bull, informing her of Kripananda's distressing and, one might say, distraught accusations. (ND 4.030)
Mar 1896
Notes
After months of smoldering, the fire of Kripananda's jealousy seems to have totally destroyed his judgment; one can only think that a sort of madness possessed him. (ND 4.032)
Mar 1896
Notes
Kripananda's stars seem to have been particularly awry during that month of March 1896. (ND 4.034)
Mar 1896
Notes
Swamiji received Mr. Flagg's letter after he left Detroit and turned it over to Mrs. Bull to act upon. She promptly copied it out sad, for his information, sent it on to Kripananda. (ND 4.035)
16 Mar 1896
News reports
The longest accounts appeared in the Tribune and the Free Press of March 16 and read, respectively, as follows: (ND 4.040)
Mar 1896
Notes
Christine recalled Swamiji's Detroit lectures: (ND 4.043)
Mar 1896
Notes
Mary Funke, also struck by the ethereal, still quality of Swamiji's presence, wrote in her own reminiscences of this period: (ND 4.045)
Mar 1896
Notes
He had many good friends in the city, among them Mrs. John Bagley, his erstwhile hostess. (Unfortunately Mrs. Bagley was not in town during his present visit; nor was he ever to see her again, for two years later she passed away.) The Swami remained in Detroit for about two weeks, during which short time he held twenty-two classes. (LSV 2.073)
Mar 1896
Notes
In addition, he gave three public lectures, speaking twice on Wednesday, March 4 morning and evening, on "The Ideal of a Universal Religion", and on Sunday, March 15 on "India's Message to the World". Of this period Mrs. Mary Funke writes: (LSV 2.073)
16 Mar 1896
News reports
On Monday, March 16, 1896, the day after his resoundingly successful public lecture and the day before his departure from the city, the Calcutta letter appeared in the Free Press with the following heading and introduction: (ND 4.046)
Mar 1896
Notes
Of the Swami's success in Detroit, another disciple wrote in the Brahmavadin of April 25, 1896. (LSV 2.074)
16 Mar 1896
News reports
In view of the attacks made upon Swamiji in Detroit in March of 1896 by one Reverend J. M. Thoburn, Alasinga Perumal, a Madras disciple of Swamiji's and editor of the Brahmavadin, wrote the following letter to the editor of the Detroit Evening News. (Appendix - A ) (ND 4.540)
17 Mar 1896
Letter
Swamiji's letter to STURDY E T From NEW YORK (CW SV 8.374)
18 Mar 1896
CE
Swamiji alongwith Mr. Goodwin left for Boston by train. (ND 4.050)
Mar 1896
Letter
Whether or not Swamiji's opinion was relayed to Kripananda we do not know; we do know, however, that he told Alasinga, editor of the Brahmavadin, his views on the matter: (ND 4.036)
Mar 1896
Notes
All in all, speaking, writing, and acting out of torments of emotion, Kripananda had managed to make one mistake after another, until finally he was in deep disrepute. (ND 4.036)
19 Mar 1896
Notes
To make matters worse, there are indications that in Detroit he had angrily berated Swamiji.. In a letter to Mrs. Bull, dated March 19, he wrote: (ND 4.036)
19 Mar 1896
Notes
One cannot but apply the following passage in Mary Funke's essay "The Master" to Swamiji's relationship with Kripananda: (ND 4.037)
Mar 1896
Notes
Months later he was to relate to Mrs. Bull his own version of Swamiji's glacial treatment of him in Detroit: (ND 4.037)
30 Mar 1896
Letter
On March 30 he replied to Mrs. Bull's letter about his explanation on his article in Brahmavadin of February 15,1896: (ND 4.035)
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