Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made his plea for conviction on the basis of patriotism, urging the jurors to keep faith with our soldier dead " beneath the crosses on Flanders Field." Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel for the defense, compared the Foster trial to the trial of Socrates and the persecutions of the early Christian martyrs, and quoted from Plato, Thomas Jefferson, Wendell Phillips, and the Declaration of Independence in behalf of the right of free speech and revolution...
...Institute on Christian Fundamentals" will be conducted at the Phillips Brooks House on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, April 23, 24, and 26, from 7 to 8 o'clock by the Reverend A. Herbert Gray D.D. of Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Gray, who was during the war a well known chaplain in the British army, is touring this country speaking to students on such subjects as "What's the Good of Religion?", "What are the Fundamentals of Religion?", and "The Secret of Power...
Chief among the arguments of the supporters of Chapel attendance on Sunday were four. First, they declared that Yale was essentially a Christian institution, that it was founded as such, that men going to New Haven do so with the knowledge that there they will be obliged to attend religious services, and that, if they are opposed to it, there are many other colleges which they may enter. In the second place, it was stated that Chapel was a place in which students might acquire in a peculiarly fitting manner ideals and idealism. The third argument brought forward...
...introduced Mr. W. H. Trumbull '15, a member of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the association, as toastmaster. Mr. Thomas W. Lamont '92 gave the address of the evening after the rendering of the reports of the president, treasurer, librarian, and the chairmen of the following committees: Harvard University Christian Association, St. Paul's Society, St. Paul's Catholic Club, Chapel Committee, Harvard Mission Committee, Graduate Schools Society, Medical School Society, Dental School Society, Law School Society and Social Service Committee...
...supposed to eat any bread except that which is made without yeast. On the last day of the week, services are held in the temples and synagogues. There are no sacraments, but the songs and sermons emphasize the significance of the past week. The chalice of the Christian communion service is related, as far as ritual goes, to the cup of the Jewish passover. Although at the Last Supper, Jesus gave an entirely different significance to the feast, yet He did not entirely change its outward form...