Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization, of which the chief officers are Federal Judge* Henry Wade Rogers and Carl Elias Milliken, one-time Governor of Maine, announced that it would make every effort to produce an American Encyclopedia of Christianity. It is to be written with American pens dipped in Protestant...
...great Catholic encyclopedias are obvious, but probably improper parallels. At least one Catholic set treats of all manner of things, ecclesiastical, historical, scientific and otherwise, and treats of them all from a Catholic point of view. The plan of Judge Rogers' encyclopedia would seem to limit it to those subjects on which there should properly exist both a Protestant and a Catholic point of view. "Protestants will continue to trust secular encyclopedias for their knowledge of secular affairs," said one commentator...
Twelve volumes of 1,000,000 words are expected to encompass the matter of the new encyclopedia. Articles on controversial topics will be written "to record rather than to create opinion." The financing of the undertaking is under...
...chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform in 1893; in 1906 was President of the Association of American Law Schools; is the author of numerous law treatises; was associate editor of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia; has contributed to the American Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He has always been active in M. E. Church affairs...
...inner meaning, and emotional overtones, so that his writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work of letters. He treats of sculpture and architecture with fair attention as well as painting. He has not produced a text or an encyclopedia, but tells only enough of an artist and his works to convey his spiritual and historical relations. He follows no set division, except a geographical one: in the present volume, Florence, Rome, Venice, Flanders, monarchical France, Reformation Germany...