Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and twenty-five Radcliffe girls waited almost half an hour last night for Canon Bryan Green at Cabot Hall. When he did appear he offered to give a talk or answer questions on anything from "Christianity and social problems" to "nationalization of British industry...
...Reverend Canon Bryan Green, missionary from the Church of England's Birmingham parish, will speak to students on "Religion and the Modern Man" at 8 p.m. tonight in the First Congregationalist Church...
...from its cheapening by would-be wits, e.g., the golfer who specified: "Scatter me well over the tenth green at the club. It's been my nemesis so often I want to haunt the place." The Rev. Geoffrey Hilder called ash-scattering "pagan -even if it is utilitarian." Canon Cyril Sansbury denounced "sprinkling someone's remains in his own rose garden . . . in hope that dear George who died last year would grow up into new roses next year. I call this a kind of pantheism...
Other churchmen, led by Canon Henry Graham, commended this "sensible custom." The result was a typical British compromise: a vote to delete all reference to ash-scattering from the new church law. This would neither prohibit the custom nor give it full and absolute sanction...
...What Canon Demant had said over the air he had already said to students at Oxford University, where last year he became Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. Calling his treatise Religion and the Decline of Capitalism, anticapitalist, anti-socialist Demant set out to diagnose the basic troubles of the time...