Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week there was no museum in the land devoted exclusively to U. S. Art. There were galleries, there were dealers, there were magazines increasingly eager to preach the American renaissance. But a Museum, a repository of the Muses, that was lacking. Last week about a thousand guests, carefully handpicked, assembled in a handsomely remodeled building on 8th Street (Greenwich Village) to hear a curious assortment of New Yorkers-Alfred Emanuel Smith, Congressman Robert Low Bacon, Subsidizer Otto Hermann Kahn, Sentimentalist Christopher Morley, Donor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-speak over a nationwide radio hookup to dedicate the Whitney Museum...
...preach the gospel of international understanding and disarmament, of goodwill and peace," The Campus of the College of the City of New York last week editorialized for the foundation of a college Peace Department. More optimistic than many another Armistice Day editorial, it declared that adequate machinery for the abolition of war is available. So are "capable, peace-loving men." Let Norman Thomas and Bertrand Russell, both pacific Socialists, be chosen for the faculty of such a peace department. . . . C. C. N. Y. rippled politely; the faculty beamed approval...
...stanch opponent of divorce, had said in a sermon of welcome that "Christian marriage rises above the consideration of expediency and human desire. . . . The bond between husband and wife, once sealed in the name of God, is subject not to the will of man but to divine will." To preach the Convention's opening sermon had come Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, stocky Bishop of St. Albans. London. Significance: he was a leader of the opposition (unsuccessful) to the limited endorsement of Birth Control by the Lambeth Conference last year (TIME, Aug. 25. 1930). He is a weighty, vigorous...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will preach at a special service for new students at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning in Sanders Theatre...
...Sunday morning, at 11 o'clock, the Reverend William Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will preach at a special service for new students in Sanders Theatre...