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...service, called "a free church Communion," will follow a simplified Protestant order, George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, said yesterday. He, in addition to two Divinity School professors, two graduate students, and C. Howard Wallace, of the United Ministry, will lead the hour-long observance...
...date of the last Communion celebrated in Memorial Church is uncertain. Buttrick said that Edward Cadwell Moore, University Preacher from 1915 to 1929, observed the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper regularly three times each year. Buttrick's predecessor, the late Dean Willard L. Sperry, held Communion only intermittently at the start of his tenure...
Although most Manila newspapers did not look kindly on Billy ("As elaborately planned as bullfights," said the Daily Mirror of his rallies), one of the papers linked him with no less a preacher than Savonarola. Billy's sermon, said the Manila Times, "could well serve as a yeast to enliven the dormant spirituality of our nation . . . It is high time that our religious leaders turn to the task of making us better men and women. We need stirring sermons challenging us to good works as well as faith. We need a Catholic evangelist who will arouse us from...
Pittenger will take over for the incumbent Douglas W. Hunt, who has been called into the Air Force. Hunt was last year's President of the Phillips Brooks House Association. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, described Hunt last night at the PBH Association Dinner "as one who had done great things...
...place the studios are offering enormous spectacles on the wide screen-galumphing travesties of the traditional horse opera-in which the lusty heroes now wrestle biddies as well as baddies, and the heroines are as likely to end up in the bushes as in front of a preacher...