Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practical advantages are manifold: it is a recognized token of respectability for household libraries; it is used, in certain "de luxe" editions, for family records of birth, marriage, and death: it is part of the paraphernalia of oaths in court, and it is issued wholesale by benevolent societies to grace the bureaus of hotel bedrooms and the cabins of vessels of the United States Shipping Board...
Last summer the Harvard Mission, under the chairmanship of W. E. Stearns '23, supported a Harvard Daily Vacation Bible School on the grounds of the Grace Methodist Church, Cambridge, with R. P. Bridgman '18 as principal, and an enrollment of 123 students. In August the Mission sent David Hall '22 and R. B. Smith '22 to the American University, Beirut, Syria, as teachers. Their salaries are paid by the Mission. One Mission study group, led by Professor James J. Addison, was held in the fall, and at least one will be held this spring. On December...
...cowpuncher, a preacher, a crook, and a wardboss, leaves behind him the roles of these necessary sorts of person, and becomes one Reginald Carter, a wholly unnecessary and thoroughly nice young man. Miss Lucille Adams, as Marcia, fills the part of a slight young creature with the required grace; Anna Laying as her sentimental mother borders upon burlesque; Jackson, played by Mark Kent, is himself, no less; Edward Darney, Houston Richards, and Miss Viola Roach perform their parts well; while Ralph Remley again shows himself a master of make-up as the Japanese servant...
...sympathy with his generation, to be let alone. From the undergraduate point of view, to wish deliberately to be a minister is heresy. But this attitude is more habit than anything else, a habit which is hard to overcome. If regarded as something more than a necessary evil, like grace before meals, preaching can be made a great profession...
...inconclusive. His general frame of mind appears to remain constant, but he finds himself defending and rejecting very different things. The great issue may, according to the period, be a primitive taboo, the utterances of the Delphic oracle, the Athanasian creed, the Inquisition, the Geocentric theory, monarchy by the grace of God, witchcraft, slavery, war, capitalism, private property, or noble isolation. All of these tend to appear to the conservative under the aspect of eternity, but all of these things have come, many of them have gone, and the remainder would seem to be subject to undreamed-of modifications...