Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither is an occasionally illiterate theatre-reviewer unusual - ED. Last Christian...
...this advise to lead Christian lives of temperance, hard-work and worship were not enough. The rules went on to enjoin all students to "eschew all profanation of the God's name," and further, that 'they studiously redeeme the time" and "diligently attend the lectures without any disturbance by word or gesture...
...become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss went...
...such revivals do evangelical Christian churches begin the six-week pre-Easter tide of exhortation to creed and dogma that will reach its flood on April 17 this year.* Roman Catholics and the more ritualistic Protestant denominations (Episcopal, Lutheran, Reformed), however, not content with such informality, celebrate Ash Wednesday as their beginning, the Roman Catholics having their foreheads marked crosswise with the ashes of palms used on Palm Sunday of the previous year. Then for 40 days of Lent-a Teutonic word originally meaning spring-they turn their thoughts with especial pains towards their religion...
...correspondent posed these questions to the editor of the Presbyterian, staunchest fundamentalist periodical of that denomination, published in Philadelphia. The editor of the liberal, undenominational Christian Century amused its readers by reprinting the Presbyterian's reply: ". . . We believe they are the very word of God expressing his just and holy judgment against the apostate wicked through the ages. . . . God is not only love; He is also holy and just, and has declared that He will visit for iniquity. ... It was a mercy to the little babes which were involved in this fearful wickedness and suffering to be taken...