Word: preach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the appalling number of prominent educators who preach faith without works by emptily applauding the idea of humanizing learning, evidence grows daily in the University that means for accomplishment are going hand in hand with a realization of the need. The tutorial system extends itself to the department of mathematics. Candidates for distinction are allowed much greater liberty. Tutors are installed in the Yard dormitories with the express purpose of coming in closer contact with their charges not at all as proctors, but on a footing of human acquaintanceship and common possession of intellectual interests. Not the least...
...Portadown, Ulster, the Rev. W. P. Nicholson costumed himself to preach his Sunday sermon. He rolled his trousers up to his knees, exposing two fine stretches of fatted calf. He unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...
...Manhattan and the surrounding suburbs live some 5,000 Buddhists. They go about their business much as the members of other religions except that they do not broadcast their holy services over the radio or issue weekly advertisements announcing what topics their priests will preach about. Last week, however, two Buddhists- C. Juandoo and Fernand E. Querroy-called on the Commissioner of Parks, one Francis D. Gallatin. They asked him if he would permit them to erect a shrine to Buddha in Central Park. They had with them handsome plans for the shrine, designed by another member of their group...
...Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares, Professor of Homiletics and Religious Education in the University of Chicago, will preach in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow...
...Dean Brown tells me that he would rather preach at Harvard than anywhere else because he knows that here he has a voluntary audience...