Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been engaged in work in Young Men's Christian Associations throughout the country accounts probably for the substantial and persistent increase in attendance at morning chapel during the past week. It is to be hoped that the healthy interest which was created by a strong man in the pulpit will continue this week under Doctor Fitch who stands, singularly enough, like Mr. Mott at the head of a world-wide mission movement. As we have observed before the calibre of the man determines the size of the audience and such voluntary attendance is by far the best form of chapel...
...Reading. Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal," with a brief talk on pulpit delivery, by Professor Winter, in Divinity Chapel...
...evening prayers the doors at one end of the chapel in University Hall (the present Faculty room), found to be locked, so that the Sophomores and Seniors who entered by those doors, the Juniors and Freshmen by those at the other end of the pulpit, were barred out. They raised a prolonged stamping." ...."This evening at prayers many of our class kept up a continuous stamping. Twenty-five more up before the Faculty. Three of the ringleaders were punished, one by 'public' admonition, one was advised to leave College, and another was sent...
Professor Palmer declared that aside from any religious benefits there was a very distinct value in the daily morning service merely as a means of starting the day right and of developing a habit of regularity. He said that the preachers who occupied the pulpit for short periods of a week or two were always leaders in their profession and seldom failed to bring with them some new thought. At no other time in the day is there an opportunity offered comparable to that of morning prayers for securing complete relaxation and for viewing one's daily life...
...sides, increasing its wall space and giving ample opportunity for placing properly the many specimens of early mediaeval art in our possession. This hall will contain, among other notable works, the colossal Bernward Column and the bronze gates of Hildesheim Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised a few steps above the floor level, there will be placed the Golden Gate of Freiberg Cathedral...