Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphian Society, Princeton University's 105-year-old campus religious organization, conducts religious services and courses of study, engages in charity and mission work, offers membership and the opportunity for good deeds to any man on the campus. Privately it does admirable, devout things in a quiet, effective way. Publicly it has achieved quite a different reputation. Several years ago the Philadelphian Society got itself mixed up with the lurid cult of Buchmanism, which encourages its adherents, of both sexes, to achieve spiritual relief by blurting out their sex histories at weekend "house parties" (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). This...
...Catholicism has four Cardinals, twelve Archbishops, 102 Bishops, 26,925 priests, 12,413 parishes, 5,753 mission churches, 135 theological seminaries (with 16,300 students). There are 7,225 free parochial schools (with 2,248,571 students), 329 orphanages (with 51,523 orphans), 624 hospitals (100,000 patients daily), 142 homes for the aged. New parishes established in the last year...
...Noble lectures were founded in 1897 by Mrs. Noble in memory of her husband, who was an Episcopal clergyman, Her purpose in establishing the fund for these lectures was to continue the mission of her husband as a minister, and to arouse the interest of Harvard students in the Christian ministry...
...majority of college religious organizations remain true to the older, more conservative program of evangelical and devotional work. Dwight Hall, Yale undergraduate organization corresponding to the Phillips Brooks House, maintains the Yale Hope Mission, attempts religious discussion groups for Freshmen, is affiliated with the student branch of the Y. M. C. A. The Phillips Brooks House devotes its energies to social service work, university hospitality, cooperation with student government, and is independent of national organization. Loan libraries, medical and dental clinics in Boston settlement houses, service to Student Council, Senior Album committee, or class groups, form the concrete daily routine...
Colonel William Boyce Thompson of Yonkers, N. Y., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. director, president of the Magma Arizona R. R., Wartime head of the Red Cross mission to Russia, gave another $1,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter's greatest benefactor, he is an alumnus (1890), a trustee, has previously given his school a gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis & squash courts, baseball cage, science building, administration building (total value: over $1,000,000). Other recipients of Thompson benefactions: Columbia University, Clarke School for the Deaf, Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research...