Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed graduated from the University of Chicago, then a small Baptist institution, in 1862. In the years that followed, the University of Chicago crumbled slowly; in 1886, the year after Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed went back to become a Doctor of Divinity, it became extinct. This made Dr. Goodspeed sad and thoughtful; he saw the need for a successor to his small and defunct alma mater, a successor which should be larger, intellectually more potent, better endowed, nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed...
...flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, as having said, kneeling beside the casket: "The zephyr of all ring...
...Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, Minister of the Park Avenue Baptist Church and Professor of Homiletics, Theological Seminary, New York City, will conduct the serivces in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, Minister of the Park Avenue Baptist Church and Professor of Homiletics, Theological Seminary. New York City, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow. The Chapel Committee wishes to call the attention of the public to the fact that because of the limited capacity of the Chapel no person other than a Harvard man or a member of the faculty can be invited to this service. Faculty reservations cannot possibly be held after five minutes before the hour. The doors will open at 10.30 o'clock...
...last Saturday's issue of the New York Herald-Tribune, Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, protested that he had been misquoted in reports of his address delivered at the Union recently. It was charged by Dr. Straton that some newspapers had quoted him as saying that, "He (a man to whom he was referring) had some elements of human decency about him, even if he was a Jewish Judge", while in truth he had said, "Though the judge was a Jew and not a Christian, and though he had in the case to deal with matters...