Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albion (Mich.) College students, good Methodists, gleefully watched their basketball team beat their longtime Presbyterian rivals, Alma College (Alma, Mich.). After the game some 250 Albions tried to crash into a local cinema. Police arrested 150, but could find place for only twelve in the town jail. These were released by friends with pickaxes and crowbars. While the rest were being piled into a truck to be locked up in another town, their cronies fought with the constabulary. Addressed by the President of the College to no avail, the rioting continued until state troopers and tear gas bombs dispersed...
...seminary there is not the slightest foundation . . . no professor of this seminary has voiced the slightest doubt as to the authority of scripture, as to the miraculous birth and acts of Christ, as to His atoning work, His resurrection, His personal return, or any other doctrine of the Presbyterian Church . . . the new board at its first meeting made the following corporate declaration: '. . . the temporary board of directors feels that it has a solemn mandate . . . to do nothing whatever to alter the distinctive traditional position which the seminary has maintained throughout its history...
Anglo-Catholic though Bishop Griswold may be, his High Church proclivities he does not thrust upon his flocks. Low Churchmen were known to have voted for his election. Tall, handsome, he caters to the cope and mitre but not to the rich. If he were a Presbyterian he might be called a fine pastor; as an Episcopalian he is a poor speaker, a hard worker among the needy...
William Courtland Robinson has stuck closer to his home town. For ten years, in fact, he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Delhi. Last week he accepted, a position which will take him away from Delhi, to Philadelphia. A conservative theologian, he was made Editor of The Presbyterian (weekly), succeeding Dr. Samuel G. Craig who was ousted (TIME...
...left Ireland and the Church for good. After exile in Rome, Trieste, Zurich, he settled in Paris; supported life by teaching, directing plays; finished his first great opus, Ulysses. The book was published in Paris (1922) by Bookseller Sylvia Beach, spinster daughter of a Princeton, N. J., Presbyterian divine. Because of its obscene passages it is officially barred from England, from the U. S., but many a copy has been booklegged. A translation of Ulysses appeared last week in French. On its title page: "Translated by August Morel, assisted by Stuart Gilbert, entirely revised by Valery-Larbaud and the author...