Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierpont Morgan, a godly man as well as a wealthy one, offered to bear the expense of issuing a new Standard Book of Common Prayer, to be presented to the 49th Episcopal convention, next October, in Washington, D. C. The revised prayer manual will omit the word obey from the marriage ceremony and it will contain a shortened form of the ten commandments. In other respects, except for perfection of minute typographical failures as far as is now known, it will conform to the revised Episcopal prayer manual which Mr. Morgan's father paid for in 1892, and which...
...thinks, better. Rollins College, of which he is President, is, perhaps, the most radical departure from the norm of universities in America. There are no recitations or lectures; there are no cuts; instead, the student faces a definite eight-hour day; four hours of mental work, two of manual work, two of physical education. The result of this system is intended to be the abolition of the gulf between professor and student; the establishment of true democracy among the entire college body; and active instead of a passive student attitude; finally, truly complete and well-rounded education...
Likewise the two-hour period of manual work is out of place in a college. In an ordinary institution of liberal arts the student has no particular need of such training; in technical and agricultural schools, his entire work is in this line. Such specialization may be an evil, but it is a necessary preparation for a specialized world...
...triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church resolved to delete, from the Protestant Episcopal prayer manual, that section known as "the Thirty-nine articles," which among other things, defines some of the differences between Protestant and Roman Catholic creeds and practices. This resolution, to be effected, must be ratified at the next general convention, to be held at Washington, in October. Last week 105 more or less consequential lay members of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 45 of the 72 U. S. dioceses, signed a memorial to the House of Bishops petitioning that the Thirty-nine articles be retained...
...regard to their habits and physical appearance, he says that the Lapps like to sit around and exchange stories, that they are not particularly active, and are none too fond of water used externally. A great deal of the manual labor is done by the women of the country. Lapps, like most primitive peoples, are fond of smoking and drinking. As for their physical ailments, they are susceptible to such diseases as tuberculosis, and social diseases are extremely prevalent among them...