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These men were the pioneers who opened the trail from American college to German universities and returned to preach the gospel of German philosophy, philology, and science. All but one had gone out from Harvard; all but one returned to Harvard to expound the new vision of scholarship. It is a colorful series of pictures that Mr. Long draws from the letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty...
...years ago in Menard, Tex., a six-foot bricklayer named Ernest Elmer Baker got the notion that his religion, Pentecostalism, would cure Russian Godlessness. He would, he told his father, who gave him $1.40 to start on the trip, "preach the Gospel to the Bolshevik! under the Kremlin wall." After tramping without visas over Germany and Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate...
...Manhattan last week arrived 30 young Mormon missionaries, bound for Europe where they will hand out tracts, hold street meetings, preach in Mormon chapels. Before they set sail a newshawk went to the Hotel McAlpin for an interview, got a bellhop to page "Mr. Brigham...
Harry Emerson Fosdick who packs the Riverside Church from spire to cellar each Sunday morning with his popular sermons will preach on December 8 at the Memorial Church. Also on the list of preachers for the fall term are Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Seminary, and the Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Trinity Church, Boston...
...clock. Special service for new students in the University Memorial Chapel. The Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry will preach...