Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your Royal Highness does not see fit to repudiate this interview," the Prime Minister was reported to have said, "I must place my resignation in the Regency's hands." Prince Nicholas is an amiable, weak-chinned youth, a reputed follower of the religious doctrines of Frank N. D. Buchman, famed for objectionable proselyting of U. S. college students (TIME, July 18, 1927). To gain time, His Royal Highness pleaded that he must consult Court Chamberlain Hiott. Passed two days. Then Court Chamberlain Hiott publicly denied with appropriate indignation that Her Majesty the Dowager Queen Marie had communicated any statement...
...BUCHMAN IN OXFORD
...report has been widely circulated regarding the work of the groups in Oxford associated with the name of the Rev. F. N. D. Buchman, D.D. From what we have observed of the results of this work, it is our belief that this criticism has arisen from misunderstanding and unfounded rumour, and misrepresents the spirit of the work. The letter was printed above another communication which dealt with "The Laws of Cricket." It was signed by eleven gentlemen of whom three were officers of three of the most important colleges at Oxford: Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, Master of Balliol, Sir Michael Ernest...
Your correspondent is rather dogmatic in referring to Frank Buchman's work at Oxford in your issue of May 28. Has he ever been to a "houseparty" or to Oxford? A year ago I attended a conference, such as the one which comes in for criticism in this latest issue of TIME at Wallingford, England (twelve miles from Oxford). There was no single piece de resistance; the discussions, continuing over a period of three days, centered on the life of Christ, prayer, and the implications of the Christian way of life for the individual Christian-what willingness to carry...
Last week's outcry at Oxford bears a close resemblance to the events which preceded Dr. Buchman's expulsion from the campus of Princeton, four years ago. At Oxford, however, there are perhaps not more than 75 Buchmanites of whom several are dons. After the outcry, the authorities made no move, undergraduates exhibited a lackadaisical approval, and Buchmanites continued to hold their "morning watches," and to move in their mysterious ways...