Word: potter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...award for his two portraits, Jim McKee and My Mother, the latter of which was acclaimed as one of the most exquisite productions ever hung in one of the Institute's U. S. exhibitions. Young Women, ingratiatingly painted by Leon Droll of Chicago, won for that artist the Potter Palmer prize of $1,000, while one Charles Grafly of Philadelphia was given the last large award, the Keith Spalding $1,000 medal, for his sculpture, Study of a Head of War. Many others were solaced with minor prizes which, though their greatest weight was one of honor, were...
...main quarrel with Fundamentalism is its lack of faith in Man" was the heading which the Reverend Charles Francis Potter, pastor of the West Side Unitarian Church in New York City, summed up his Modernistic views at an address in Phillips Brooks House last night, held under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Association...
Apropos of the Rev. Mr. Potter's discussion of the social menace of Fundamentalism, the question not unnaturally arises of the social benefits of Modernism. It is a recognized historical fact that religion during the nineteenth century suffered a marked decline. And with a diminishing interest in religion itself there followed almost inevitably a lowering of ethical and moral standards. In the popular mind religious belief and moral conduct have such a very close relation that when the verity of traditional beliefs is doubted and rejected, observance of traditional codes of conduct suffers in consequence...
Dean Leighton will preside at the meeting. After Reverend Potter's speech questions that the audiences care to ask will be answered and discussed by him. These will have to be written out, however, as it was found last year at a similar meeting that verbal questions caused too much excited argument and rebuttal...
...Reverend Potter has been identified with the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy in theological circles as an aggressive upholder of the Modernists. In a debate last year in New York City in which he encountered the Reverend John Roach Straton as his opponent Reverend Straton won the verdict of the judges...