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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Episcopalians call Bishop Freeman "the 20th Century prophet of the church, a leading exponent of prophetic ministry, a new St. Chrysostom* of the pulpit whose magnetic oratory and sound reasoning have great effect on his congregation. " Comparison might also have been made to Prophet Malachi, who wrote: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Washington Cathedral | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...that at an early age Author Durant received an invitation from a Roman Catholic Priest: "You must study more, and pray more, and always bear in mind that the church has chosen you to be one of our servants. . . ." For some years Jack (as Author Durant has chosen to call himself in these pages) accepts the invitation to be a priest if he does not always follow the advice which accompanied it. Then after being a reporter, a teacher, a factory worker, he leaves his seminary to become an anarchist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Ben | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...article in the Transcript is headed "Dirty Music." I would hardly call it that. "A Lack of Courtesy" would seem to me to be more truthful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...said Mr. Milne's royalty, no one could call him a fussy man. Likewise with those simple souls who still enjoy football for the sake of football and not for the sake of the havoc it creates. They are not fussy, but the present trend leaves them bewildered. Where in the carnival should those three hours which once formed the be-all and end-all be placed." Stripped of their trappings crowds, stadia, bands, riots how do they rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTUMNAL DAZE | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

Ugly rumors to the effect that the Dartmouth football team will romo within the Stadium walls clad in shirts and shorts or something similarly negligee have thrown sport writers into what the wary call a state of high tension. Be that as it may, there is one Dartmouth delegation which arrives in Cambridge today for battle, girded with armor of a far more secretive nature. "The Dartmouth", which faces the CRIMSON in a game of touch football this afternoon, is expected to appear on the field-it is hoped that there will be a field-in anything from formal dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSTN'T TOUCH | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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