Word: christian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Means '17 will lead the regular meeting of the Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 9.45 o'clock. His subject will be "The Purpose and Meaning of Friendship." All members of the University are invited to attend and take part in the discussion...
...Haverhill; Douglas Campbell '17, of Mt. Hamilton, Cal.; Lorenzo Barry Day '17, of Brookline; Francis Baylies Dean '17, of Flushing, L. I., N. Y.; Donald Drought Dewart '18, of Spokane, Wash.; Clifford Frederick Farrington '16, of Cambridge; Alfred Wild Gardner '18, of New York, N. Y.; Max Hans Christian Gersumky '17, of Winthrop; David Dewey Greene '16, of Cambridge; Paul Membree Hartley, of Stockton, Mo.; Norman Percy Johnson '17, of Faribault, Minn.; Bruce Lancaster '18, of Worcester; John Edward Lancaster '16, (manager), of Worcester; Henry Whitney Minot '17, of Boston; Leslie Allen Morgan '17, of Potwin, Kan.; William James Murray...
...weekly meeting of the Christian Association will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 9.45 o'clock. W. W. Webster '18 will lead the discussion on "Christianity and the Labor Problem...
There is more method than madness in preceding "Androcles and the Lion" with this quaint comedy in the old French manner. After all, it does not seem so tremendous a jump from the mediaeval to the days of the Christian martyrs. By the unreality of the first, we are quite prepared for the product of Shaw's fertile imagination. He calls it a "fable play." He might better have called it a "fabulous entertainment." If one goes in glum seriousness to see a play, if one wants to imbibe the practical philosophy of a deep thinker, if one wants anything...
...letting his imagination loose on what sort of people the Christian martyrs might have been, Shaw is now amusing, now mock-serious, now openly cynical,--and now and again not tactful in the presence of the easily shocked. For instance, where the Christians are cheerfully assigning themselves to places on the Coliseum menu, and one gentleman announces that he is to be the mince pie. Probably, however, this is no more a burlesque on anachronism than to have Roman centurions speak cockney English, or the Roman dandles have all the characteristics of London fops. It might be argued that Shaw...