Word: montclair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once more that the art of an enterprising commercial century is, by convention, dull. Of the celebrated pictures and sculpture they could find nothing new to say, and after examining the many other interesting specimens they could only express an inevitable doubt that such opera as "A Frosty Morning, Montclair," "The Hurrying River" by Robert H. Nisbet, "Afterglow" by Henry B. Snell, "The Last Moments of John Brown" by Thomas Hovenden will be considered "masterpieces" at the end of another, even though an equally enterprising century...
Page 23, TIME, Sept. 21: "He [Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick was ever a Baptist." Why not is? Has he ever been any thing else since he has belonged to any denomination? I believe Dr. Fosdick has retained his membership in the Montclair Baptist Church even since he has preached at the First Presbyterian Church, New York...
There used to be Sunday mornings in fair-lawned Montclair, N. J. when prosperous commuters, resting from their labors, dallied over the name of Harry Emerson Fosdick. He was queer, discussible, young...
...this was 20 years ago, when the newly ordained , graduate of Union Theological Seminary and his bride settled down in pleasant and pretty Montclair...
Ecclesiastical preferment had nothing to do with the Fosdick ascendency. He was a Baptist ? and the Baptist Church contains no ecclesiastical ladder. The simple facts are that from 1904 to 1915, Fosdick remained in Montclair. He began to give a few lectures at Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, and finally removed, in 1915, bag and baggage to the Seminary to become Professor of Practical Theology...