Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important stipulation is that the privilege of solicitation in University buildings is to be granted to Harvard students strictly on a basis of eligibility. Application for this permission is to be made through the Student Employment Office, which will pass judgment upon the financial requirements of each student. It is extremely necessary that this regulation of eligibility be observed to the letter. Soliciting in the dormitories and Houses will undoubtedly bring substantial returns to many students, and it goes without saying that this privilege should be reserved for those whose financial need is greatest...
...large evangelical denominations the one which least countenances clerical laxity is the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist asceticism reached its apogee in 1924 when a Methodist conference voted to insert in the Church's Book of Discipline the following: "We [ministers and laymen] . . . record our solemn judgment that the habitual use of tobacco is a practice out of harmony with the best Christian influence...
Last week this half-forgotten judgment was dug up by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of Washington, D. C., 68, president of the Methodist Board of Temperance, and brandished over the head of a Methodist conference in Seaford, Del. Asked for an opinion on smoking, Bishop Hughes warmly gave it: "If I felt that I could not live up to my obligations as minister, I would hand in my credentials and stop preaching. I would not walk up & down the streets a self-confessed liar by puffing a cigar. . . . Many ministers complain they are not getting results in their works...
From 970 B. C., when Solomon built the first Temple at Jerusalem, until 606 B. C. when the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, was a period of war, decay idolatry in Palestine. King Solomon had created an Israelitish state, but he turned apostate. God's judgment on his sins was that the kingdom should be rent into Israel on the north and Judah on the south. Some good kings followed Solomon, and the great Prophets Elijah Elisha, Isaiah and Jeremiah thundered God's words at the children of Israel. But the age was full of such...
...pictures at the Bignou Gallery were excellent examples of the two styles by which most citizens remember Renoir. La Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were...