Word: pulpiteering
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Cucumbers & Cheese. "It's not that I know much about education," Hutchins once said just before launching into one of his attacks, "it's that I know nothing else." The son of a Presbyterian preacher1 who was also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around & about colleges all his life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about...
...From the Pulpit. The Belangers had the support of Father Emile Bourassa of St. Patrice de Beaurivage parish. Said he: "Extraordinary things, that seem to come from divine powers, are going on." They recalled that when Father Edmond Pelletier of St. Sylvestre preached a sermon against the miracles, he became so ill that he had to leave the church. That did not stop him from condemning the "miracles" as "the most horrible exploitation of superstition I have ever seen...
...Sunday, Father Giovanni read the excommunication decree from the pulpit. "What this means," he explained, "is that if you approve of Communism, you'll be banned from the church. We cannot give you the sacraments. This is only a religious measure . . . We are defending our church. Only that. Do you understand...
M.I.T. is still the biggest of the open-end trusts. In Boston, where the managing of other people's money has always been the highest calling (short of the pulpit or the presidency of Harvard), M.I.T. does not suffer from the fact that a Cabot, a Lowell and an Adams are on its advisory board-and that Merrill Griswold, its Harvard Law School-trained chairman, was once married to a Lowell...
With a tall, gold and scarlet jeweled mitre on his head, a white and gold stole over his shoulders and a silver and gold crozier in his hand, the stocky little 60-year-old prelate, survivor of the Nazis' Dachau concentration camp, mounted the pulpit and turned to face his congregation...