Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal, bilious travesty of the Gospel...
...When I first surveyed the flooded area,' he says, 'I felt that the dykes could not possibly be repaired before the next flood season. But it was done within six months, and by Chinese engineers. There was not a foreigner in the lot. . . . These dykes of ours were many of them 140 feet broad at the base and 30 feet broad at the top and they were 30 to 50 feet high. . . . At one time we had 1,400,000 of people working on the main river dykes. The amount of dirt used would put a dyke around the earth...
Letters written over a period of 25 years by Henry Van Dyke to George E. Woodberry '77, nationally popular writer of the last generation, are now on exhibit in the Poetry Room on the top floor of Widener Library...
...mutual respect of two of the most popular writers of the last generation is clearly evinced in the letters from Henry Van Dyke to George E. Woodberry, the most representative of which are now on exhibit in the Poetry Room in Widener Library. Writing in a manner which be speaks great friendship and a long acquaintance, Van Dyke states that Woodberry's Gibraltar Sonnets" will live with Wordsworth; he compares the quality of Woodberry's "Hawthorne" to George Inness' painting. Most interesting of them all is one written shortly before the deaths of both men. It reveals the hearts...
...prints showing decorative art motives will be on exhibit in Gallery 15 of the Fogg Art Museum. Arranged to illustrate the development of decorative art over a period of centuries, the collection is made up of engravings and etchings from the works of Rembrandt, Durer, Clodion, Hogarth, Van Dyke, and many others...