Word: pulpiteering
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...their strong expression, are what earned for the article its universal attention and approbation. There is a rumor - so indefinite as to almost fail of being a rumor, except that it is not denied by persons of authority - that a new and entirely satisfactory system of supplying the college pulpit will with the ensuing year be adopted...
...hymns and anthems in a manner which cannot be too much praised. Rev. Mr. Gordon opened the services by the reading of a psalm; this was followed by the reading of three portions of the New Testament and a prayer by Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Peabody then ascended the pulpit and began his sermon on the text Joel ii 28: "And it shall come to pass that our old men shall see visions and our young men shall dream dreams." The speaker spoke with great earnestness of the important place which this world of ideality should have among any body...
Appleton Chapel is now being thoroughly renovated; the platform has been extended a little and the first row of benches has been removed. An entirely new pulpit has been put in, and a handsomely painted screen is behind...
There has been some complaint about college - it is true the complaining has not been very extensive - that the practice of placing the numbers over the pulpit in chapel, to indicate the psalms and hymns, has been given up, or at least very much neglected. We grant that the matter is of slight importance, but still we think the custom a sufficiently valuable one to be continued, and certainly we can see no good reason for its discontinuance. To those, who take part in the services, the numbers are often useful...
...rivalry to get within the door before the bell should stop, under penalty of receiving a black mark for tardiness, a worse offence than absence; we recall the monitors rising in the midst of each of the four classes at the same time that the minister rose in the pulpit, registering in the books the absences while the Scripture reading went on, and not always finishing before the prayer began; we recall the cadences of the faithful clergymen and some of their oft-repeated sentences and their innocent mannerisms, such as the opening of the eyes of one of them...