Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of the Christian Science Monitor, who have grown to trust the judgment and admire the style of its Contributing Editor, Willis J. Abbot, gaped aghast at what he had cabled to London as correspondent for Britannia...
...grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...
...come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred by the First Christian Church of Kansas City, a public to be a little suspicious of, and a handful of haughty prima donna ways which have not helped her popularity...
Thirteen years passed; the lush fruit had done well, the colony prospered. In 1888, then, the two great things happened: Pomona was chartered as a city, Pomona College was founded by a group of settlers who felt the need of a small "Christian college of the New England type...
Scattered here and there in the simple sun parlor of a private house the first students began to learn their Christian duties of citizenship. The next year, an uncompleted hotel at Claremont, three miles north of Pomona, was given to the college and the students were assembled. In 1894, 47 students were graduated. It soon became difficult to cling to the ideal of a small college. Nevertheless Pomona firmly shut its doors yearly in the face of all but 750 students. But if there were two colleges? Later, perhaps, three? On the coast of the Pacific another Oxford, a group...