Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Delor Kohlstedt, Board corresponding secretary: "Amazingly poor and inadequate leadership . . . general economic depression of the country." The Board helped out by loaning individual churches a total of more than $500,000. But in many cases "nothing more than our sympathy could be extended." However, there was a bright aspect to the meeting. The Board has succeeded in organizing efficient "larger parishes," which consolidate M. E. work previously diffused. The Board has also persuaded many such "parishes" to pay trained religious teachers good salaries, a "novelty in Protestant religious education...
Rivalry between the two active house units is assuming an extraordinary aspect. Not to be outdone by "the bells of Lowell," Dunster House is striving to decorate itself wherever a bare surface will support new ornamentation. Wrought iron fences, heavily sculptured panelling, and a Greek vase on the Gatepost are now deemed insufficient. Large emblazoned shields have recently been erected to the growing wonder of the students...
With the distribution of the conscience money, the last sensational aspect of the case is concluded. There remains, however, the need for some answer to the general question raised by the scrubwomen episode. That answer the University has long since promised to give...
Alter the percentages slightly as economic conditions and the general investment market changes. No pension or other denominational board which Mr. Boult could discover owns common stocks. He approved that situation, because common stocks have a speculative aspect and churches must be certain of their investment income. Also many churchgoers deem all speculation unholy gambling; and "organizations becoming partners through stockholding in an industry expose themselves to the charge of prejudice in favor of the industry...
...compose The National Council on Religion in Higher Education, under the presidency of Harvard's Theology Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, last week offered U. S. and Canadian colleges a new, free service-advice on social sciences, chapel, student counseling and any other matter which may have a religious aspect...