Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baptist Meeting House, midway down the Hill, they will doff mortar boards and one of the men will relinquish the truncheon of his authority. The other will catch it up. And so will pass a famed figure in U. S. educational circles ? Doctor William Herbert Perry Faunce, president of Brown University...
...Brown alumni & undergraduates came news last week that Parson Faunce, reaching the retirement age of threescore years and ten and unrecovered from a sickness of three years ago, would be succeeded by another parson ? Doctor Clarence Augustus Barbour. Parson Barbour, staunch Baptist, prominent Rochester divine, President of Rochester Theological Seminary, will assume administrative duties in June...
...work brought Parson Faunce an A. M. in 1883, D. D. in 1897, LL.D. from Baylor in 1904. During all this time he held many jobs?but all within cloistered quads or the protecting arms of the Church. He taught mathematics at Brown, led erring sinners back to the Baptist fold in Springfield, Mass., New York, and Harvard. In 1899 he became Presi- dent of Brown & Professor of Moral & Intellectual Philosophy. His classes in Moral & Intellectual Philosophy were small but his Presidency was adequate...
December 9--The Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, Minister of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York...
...hours later Georgians knew about the catch in Canada. Soon Carnes would be in Atlanta, and many a Georgian, many another Southerner waited to hear what Carnes would say about the million dollars or more which represented the shortages in the accounts of the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board. Carnes had been treasurer of the board until he left Atlanta on or about Aug. 15, nor had he resigned...