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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea has persisted for a long time that among nations, as in families, there are younger and older brothers. One deduces from this idea that the function of acting as tutor, at least in spiritual matters and many times in matters of policing, is exercised by the older brothers with the supposed younger brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Progress | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...first service, open only to members of the University and Radcliffe College was given last evening, with a large number in attendance. Both services today will be open to the public with children if accompanied by an older person, invited to the afternoon meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAVISON WILL DIRECT CHORAL SERVICE TODAY | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

This Committee on Iconography has collected a large number of photographs and prints for Lawrence Hall. Among these pictures are two reproductions of old prints of Harvard one showing a group of the older buildings, the other, portraying a quiet cricket game in progress in front of Sumner's monument near Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/18/1928 | See Source »

...then a clubman much like his son at present, that the older Anthony visited Dr. Floyd Tomkins, a Philadelphia divine, and said "I have seen the Great Light. . . ." He was given a Bible class of three men. Soon he inaugurated his own movement, designed to unite the ideas of Sport and of God. In 1912 he held a formal meeting at his Philadelphia house to organize formally "Athletic Christianity," so that any Bible class in the country could become a Drexel Biddle Bible Class and utilize his scheme for keeping young persons near to the churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Televisionary Biddle | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...fault of the clergy that these beliefs are not already generally accepted, according to Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman. "They don't wish to disturb older members of their congregations with modern ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Semitic Exaggeration | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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