Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Robert C. Billings prize of $100 for improvement in pulpit delivery has been divided into three prizes and awarded as follows: to Merril Jacob Holmes grDv., A.M., S.T.B., of Evanston, III., a first prize of $45; to George Ernest Russell 3And., of Cambridge, a prize of $30; and to Harold Linson Stratton 2And., of Yankton, S. D., a prize...
...Utsurikawa 1G., George W. Dilaway fellowship to C. H. Smith '15, University scholarship to R. J. White '15. Sireno Carl Weist, And., of Gloucester, Harold Linson Stratton And., of Yankton, S. Dakota and Lewis Welton Sanford Dv., of Passumpsic, Vt., were awarded the Billings prize for improvement in pulpit delivery. The resignations of H. L. Gray '98 as Assistant Profesor of History and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, of B. E. G. Dirks, from a University scholarship, and of A. D. Muir 3G., from the C. E. Norton fellowship, were received and accepted. Professor Irving Babbitt...
...Grays 17, next Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock. M. Brieux is widely known in this country and abroad not only as a dramatist of the first rank but for his keen interest in every branch of social reform. He has used the stage as many men use the pulpit or lecture room, and he has used it with far greater effect. Some of his best known plays are "La Robe Rouge," "Simone," "Les Avarieux," and "Les Trois Filles de M. Dupont...
...Compulsory attendance upon religious exercises seemed to many to justify their using every means to evade or disregard them. Thus the bell was turned up and filled with water which froze at night: the rope on which it was hung was cut and the Bible was stolen from the pulpit...
...Billings Prize of $40 was awarded yesterday to H. L. Pickett uDv., of Lexington for improvement and excellence in pulpit delivery. Two second prizes of $30 each were presented to P. E. Shannon, Andover Theological Seminary of Bemidji, Minn., and R. B. Street Dv., '14 of Linville Falls, N. C. The judges of the contest were Dean Fenn '84 of the Divinity School, President Fitch '00 of Andover Theological Sethinary, Professor H. W. Foote '97 of the Divinity School and Professor I. L. Winter '86 of the English Department...