Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of B'nai B'rith. The souvenir film package sold briskly for 80 Israeli pounds ($37 at tourist rates) until a visitor from England made a startling discovery last week: the background music for much of the film was Sir Arthur Sullivan's fine old hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...prayer, offered by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will be followed by addresses by three students, Richard E. Rubenstein '59, Upton B. Brady '59, and H.O.J. Brown 3D. The awarding of degrees will come next on the program, and the singing of the Commencement Hymn and a benediction will conclude the morning segment...
...your article concerning the seven chosen [for the first manned space flight - April 20]: the essay about Marine Lieut. Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. was stupendous! Like we sing in the Marine Corps Hymn...
...hymn (air by Thomas Preston, words by Godfrey Lias) was far from music to the ears of the Manchester Guardian, which huffed editorially: "This has a ring of 'confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks'-the words now rightly dropped from our national anthem." The Guardian was reminded of Sir John Squire's lines...
...Lias asked the Guardian: "If we believe in God, surely it cannot be wrong to ask for his help-as the Lord's Prayer does-in delivering the world from fear and violence." NATO itself, being anxious to keep the peace, made clear that it had blessed no hymns. "If any hymn was ever proposed to the NATO Council," said one official, "it would have a good deal more trouble getting approved than any note to Khrushchev...