Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School has a number of portrait medals the most valued being one of Sir Francis Bacon. Another medal of interest is one given by Sir Edward Coke to a friend upon his own appointment as Attorney General to King James I of England. It was the Custom at that period to distribute such medals as a memorial of important events in the lives of great statesmen and judicial officers...
...courses are offered for students of limited means and are conducted in the same way as those regularly given in the curricula of the cooperating institutions. The work, beginning during the last week in September, continues into the month of May, with vacancies at Christmas, Midyears and Easter, the period of instruction covering 30 weeks. Credit is given towards the degree of Associate in Arts at Harvard, Tufts, Wellesley, and Radcliffe...
...unique office is the idea of Frank N. Doubleday. Mr. Doubleday, no longer young and somewhat invalided as a result of sleeping sickness during the War period, does not see many people. He prefers the unconventional seclusion of this motor office to the telephone jangling and the unchanging aspects of "conference rooms...
When he left his college education behind him at Amherst, he married and became a minister. A little man with a juicy, passionate face, he charmed the women of every congregation before which he preached. Men, as a rule, did not like him. After a period of years he found himself at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, the pastor of a flock of golden sheep, from whose charge he derived a yearly income of $20,000, even now a generous stipend for any preacher. No doubt Henry Ward Beecher deserved such recompense for his services; he was called the most eloquent preacher...
...that neither of scarecrow nor monster but of a man, whose absurdities are entirely comprehensible, whose pretensions are more pathetic than laughable. Equipped with the abilities of a reporter as well as those of a biographer, Author Hibben has been able to preserve the plush and walnut of the period in which Preacher Beecher flourished; to make his people move about stiff and surprising but none the less actual, like the preposterous people of an antique tintype, brought suddenly to life. The Author. A graduate of Princeton in 1903,* Paxton Hibben has served in the Army, the diplomatic corps...