Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From his own pulpit, the new leader looked upon the faces of ardent friends. Some had known him from childhood. For Dr. Coffin?a descendant of Commodore Vanderbilt?is that rara avis, a genealogical Manhattanite. Graduated from Yale at the age of 20 with highest honors, he struck out from the ancestral paths, plunged into the ministry, and was soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation...
...that is the question of the gown-wearers. College questionnaires usually reveal some 20 to 40% of near-graduates who are "undecided." Author Toland, instructor at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) and a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, rightly makes the point that, in an age of specializing, the hour for decision has struck before a boy leaves secondary school. In a few brief, provocative chapters that have more value than most college vocational guidance bureaus, he brings to youth's attention the nature and requirements of a score of careers, including college itself...
...subject than it is to attempt to learn formulae, memorize passages from the great authors of the past or dig deep into abstract principles. But the former is profitless unless it rests on the firm foundations of the latter. It is true that the great inventions of the age are the children of imagination, but the automobile, the flying machine, the telephone would never have come into being if the invention had not possessed, in addition to imagination, a firm, sure knowledge of the laws of mechanics, electricity and physics. In the present agitation for intellectual liberty, there is danger...
Twentieth Century Was Age of Faith...
...respect the expedition has confirmed, rather than disturbed traditional accounts of American life, in that its investigations of religious life in the twentieth century corroborate with interesting details the claim of that period to be known as the Age of Faith. Perhaps the most striking feature of the time was the survival and even the re-juvenescence of the Inquisition. It was temporarily in the hands of the Methodists, and the Catholics were naturally indignant at this breach of tradition. There seems to have been general sympathy with this protest; for the Americans have always tried to be a legal...