Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends remember him as a bookworm of athletic prowess at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. His father, who is considered the foremost Anglo-Catholic of the day, is said to regard his son's equal devotion to that faith with satisfaction...
...followers, the Swedenborgians, form a quiet, modest sect, which nevertheless sends out persistent propaganda of their faith. Last week they announced in their chief periodical, The New-Church Messenger, an appeal for $100,000 to make facile a reprinting of their master's works?32 volumes. Clarence Walker Barron, editor of Barren's Financial Weekly and of the Wall Street Journal, heads the funds committee, promised to get $50,000 himself, urged other church members to contribute another...
Well, these weren't the only people taking pictures recently. The little square between the house of faith and the halls of charity was filled the other day by publicity hounds baying at the brother of the egg complex with cameras. All of which might lead to another sermon or disquisition or monologue on the art of drawing a crowd on Harvard Square. Now up in Vermont where I come from they wouldn't collect to see a man cat eggs. There is a subtle sanity about the country which doesn't show itself so much in the big cities...
...have been organizing into a Laymen's League. Original plans were to keep this league a secret one and work under cover. But second thought has decided its originators to make public the aims. The league will keep "its members posted on all matters in defense of the faith" by means of a monthly bulletin. Detailed plans are out by which fundamentalist laymen may be elected as commissioners to the forthcoming session of the Presbyterian General Assembly. D. Webster Wylie is President of the League, with offices at No. 25 Broad St., Manhattan...
...Nothing is taught at Harvard that cannot be learned elsewhere in half the time that Harvard takes to teach it." With such an ultimatum does that worthy journal, the Boston Advertiser, place ashes upon the grave of any over-sanguine faith in Harvard University...