Word: expounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union's faculty, all but one of whom are ordained ministers, represent eight faiths. Students learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps...
...sadly-neglected difference between the class-room and committee-room. He met the challenge of defining the always clusive ideal of academic freedom by calling it, "the right of a professor to seek that which we call truth according to the best of his ability and his conscience and expound it to his students as well as he can." The legislator who proposed that the majority of the taxpayers determine just what is truth, places much more faith in the electorate than it has so far merited. Until the millennium arrives it would seem advisable to let each citizen...
These men were the pioneers who opened the trail from American college to German universities and returned to preach the gospel of German philosophy, philology, and science. All but one had gone out from Harvard; all but one returned to Harvard to expound the new vision of scholarship. It is a colorful series of pictures that Mr. Long draws from the letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty...
That was enough for Dr. Coffey. Being impatient with the slowness of orthodox doctors in double-checking new remedies, he let newspapers know that he felt pretty certain that he had a remedy for cancer. California's Senator Hiram Johnson helped matters by letting Dr. Coffey expound his ideas about the cortical extract which abated cancer before a Senate Committee...
...well that Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been dismissed. What right has he to attempt to eliminate bigotry and religious fanaticism from education in Georgia? What right has he to expound the doctrines, the solid liberal doctrines of Barrett Wendell and LeBaron Russell Briggs to Methodists and Baptists? The trouble with him is that he pays too much attention to the danni Yankees.' Yes, it is well that Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College," the college whose first Trustee was his father, the college into which he was born and aiming at which...