Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past year I have been in India investigating and writing for the Christian Science Monitor and other newspapers. And for the problems existing there through religious superstition, racial hostility and British commercial exploitation of the Indian peoples, the most promising solution is, it seems to me, the spreading influence of the sort of Christianity which is taught and lived by men like Dr. Jones, the Christianity not, let us say, of Fifth Avenue, but of Jesus Christ. Too much can never be said in praise of Dr. Jones and his work, and his book...
...Press) were the headline subjects at the seventh annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in Washington last week. Few important U. S. newspaper editors are their own masters nowadays. Nevertheless, what they say illuminates the consensus of newspaper opinion. ¶ Editor Willis John Abbot (Christian Science Monitor) asked that the society inquire into the activities of the power trust with reference to newspaper ownership and to make a report at its 1930 meeting, by which time more data will be available on the program of the trust, especially that of International Paper Co. This company was named...
...pessimistic climax like this: "The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. . . ." Moreover, "it was not until the dawn of the 20th century of the Christian era that War really began to enter into its kingdom. j> "The War stopped as suddenly and as universally as it had begun. ... In a hundred laboratories, in a thousand arsenals, factories, and bureaux, men pulled themselves up with a jerk, turned from the task in which they had been...
William Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, has been elected Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, succeeding Edward Caldwell Moore, now Plummer Professor, Emeritus. Dean Sperry has been Preacher to the University since 1921 and Professor of Homiletics since...
...Christian Keener ("Red") Cagle, All-American football halfback last year and captain-elect of this year's Army eleven, went to Manhattan last week with a group of fellow cadets on an "educational trip." ' Official goal: American Museum of Natural History, wondrous home of dried marvels. After that the West Pointers had freedom until 11:45 p. m. Hero Cagle broke away, accompanied by a cadet assigned to guard him. Eluding the guard, he rushed into the foggy night, arrived in West Point several hours late. Punishment (his second within three months for the same offense); six demerits...