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Last week Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, liberalist extraordinary, saw one of his dearest ambitions approach its fulfillment when the cornerstone of his new Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, was set in place. Before Dr. Fosdick accepted the call to this pastorate in 1925, he made several express stipulations. Among these were: a) that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity, b) that Baptist rites and doctrines not be insisted on, c) that the new church be constructed somewhere near Columbia University. The trustees of the richest Baptist congregation in the world agreed to Dr. Fosdick...
...Harrison polled 1114 votes to Cleveland's 851, and feeling ran so high that the Graduates' Magazine excused it by saying "That no incompatibility existed between one's membership in Harvard College and a dignified participation in political affairs, even in a strictly partisan way." Evidently, from this, some liberalist, best-man sentiment was in the air to call out an otherwise pointless apology. Of these two ancient rivals, the Republican Club was the longer lived, and as an Oxonian remarked, "It outdid any society for diffusion of knowledge-or ignorance!" It sent out 30,000 speeches, and held torch...
...Harrison is an eminent English man-of-letters, a friend of John Morley. He has written a Life of Cromwell and numerous essays. He is a follower of Kant's philosophy, a positivist, and a liberalist...