Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard played host to 1200 pilgrims of old England yesterday when the delegation of British Congregational clergymen and laymen was welcomed by Professor E. C. Moore, representing President Lowell, on behalf of the Corporation. The former president of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions met the delegation at commonwealth pier yesterday and conducted the pilgrimmage to Cambridge, where the official reception was held in Appleton Chapel...
Professor E. C. Moore, former president of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, representing President Lowell, will receive on behalf of the Harvard Corporation the 1200 British Congregational clergymen and laymen who arrived in Boston on the liner Celtic yesterday...
Under pretext of conducting a group of U. S. clergymen through the University, last week, strapping Missionary Zwemer began to distribute Presbyterian tracts. Soon some hundreds of the students became excited by this apparently inflammatory literature. One unshakably Moslem student sought to tear the last of the tracts from Dr. Zwemer's potent fist, but other students barkened for a time to his loud, impressive words...
There are now 217,204 clergymen, 1,387 less than last year; this decrease is probably due to consolidation of churches, of which there were 235,991 in 1927, 1,470 less than...
...trio had been called as a result of developments earlier in the week. From witness after witness the Committee had heard more about strike conditions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Clergymen and newsgatherers (including passionate Fannie Hurst) had brought fresh tales of squalor, brutality, poverty, Bolshevism...