Word: baptism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Harvard Stadium was completed, and the Crimson athletic officials decided that a Dartmouth football game would be a fitting baptism. It was a day of glory for the Indians, who dedicated the Stadium with their first victory over Harvard and a 11 to 0 score. Their team was described as unusually heavy, the line averaging 220 pounds to the man from tackle to tackle. One of the conspicuous performers for the Crimson on that occasion was John Parkinson '05, who held the center position, and whose son is one of the probable players for this afternoon. Today, then, marks...
Bremen, the other sister, received her champagne baptism at Bremen. It is no discourtesy to distinguished Ambassador Schurman to say that the Bremen's launching oration was pronounced by a mightier Man. A roar of welcome went up from 50,000 throats as He arrived, striding with ponderous tread, nodding gravely at the plaudits, a man too old and too great to receive aught but universal homage...
...less sad is it that even among the faithful, bathed with baptism in the blood of the Immaculate Lamb and enriched by grace, there are many of all classes who, ignorant of things divine or poisoned by false doctrines, live evil lives far from the house of their divine father without the light of faith and without the joy of hope of future beatitude, and deprived of the benefits and comforts deriving from the ardor of charity, so that it can in truth be said that they live in darkness and the shadow of death...
Perhaps, by the time this suggestion reaches the correct point of contact, the baptism will already have been perpetrated. I refer to a name for Lindbergh's new plane [TIME, April...
West Point training was followed by fire-baptism in the Mexican War, where heroic service at Cerro Gordo, Contreras-Churubusco and Chapultepec led General Scott to designate young Lee "the greatest living soldier in America." Engineer work in Washington and Baltimore taught him to construct defenses, a knowledge which was to serve him well. For three years he superintended West Point...