Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Lawrence, able publisher of the United States Daily, writing in the Chicago Daily News, retold an historic remark uttered in the winter of 1920 by President-elect Harding to his private secretary, George Christian. The Harding Cabinet was being selected, under much political stress & strain. The Christian-Lawrence version of Harding's remark: "George, I've just got a hunch that it's the best thing to do and a big thing to do -to pick Hoover. This fellow can be a big factor in a big constructive way in this reconstruction period...
...have known him. At the close of his twenty-fifth year and again during his recent illness, large gatherings of the alumni gave enthusiastic expression of their devotion. Nor is he merely the leader of a small university. He has been a prominent and fair-minded exponent of Christian liberalism, and he is one of the very best speakers of our day. Whether he addresses college graduates or businessmen his hearers are stirred by the beauty of his words and the nobility of his thought...
...declarations were for Governor Smith, was Professor John Dewey of Columbia University, economist, philosopher, outstanding U. S. student of pedagogy. Professor Dewey published his three reasons in The New Republic and followed them up by calling on the Nominee at the head of a college delegation that included Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton and representatives from 49 other colleges and universities...
Mott & Ramsey continue the work begun by one George Williams, clerk in a London draper's establishment, before either Ramsey or Mott was born. In 1844 Clerk Williams and a dozen God-fearing fellows formed a discussion-and-prayer group which they called the Young Men's Christian Association. Six years later there were chapters in Montreal & Boston; eight years later the first collegiate "Y" was formed at the University of Virginia...
...Reverend Professor Edward Caldwell Moore, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the University, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8:45 o'clock this morning...