Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Philadelphia nearly 53 years ago, Bishop-elect Robbins was a Presbyterian until his late 20's. Then he went to Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), found its Calvinism too narrow, looked for broader horizons. In 1904 he was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. He had parishes at Morristown and Englewood, N. J., went to the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan in 1911. Six years later he was elected Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...Poetry, the only other chair in the University that seeks to correlate the culture of a large field. The holder of the Chair of Poetry is at freedom to discuss any of the seven liberal arts, music and fine arts as well as verse, being considered poetry in the broader sense...
Speaking in a broader sense, taking the Shearer controversy more as a text than as an isolated case, Captain Wygant said...
...governments of the various countries are considered. Rather it is the type of reading assigned and whether it is intended to teach the student just how governments are conducted or to arouse a serious and individual interest in the more essentially cultural subject of historical political theory in its broader aspects...
Dourest and glummest of all Scotch religious sects are the famed "Wee Frees" (Free Church of Scotlanders), bitter-end remnant of the larger and broader Free Church which united with Scotch Presbyterians in 1900. With 92 ministers to guide them, the "Wee Frees" dwell glumly in the mist of the wild highlands, bemoaning their sins, brooding on Hell. Last week the "Wee Frees' " Assembly Commission met awesomely at Edinburgh. Before the day was out various Commissioners had censured as "Sabbath-breakers" not only Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald but Their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of York...