Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-read Dr. Craig unique in having furbished up his speech with these neat statistics. Perhaps their first oral repetition was by the Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin from the pulpit of his Manhattan church in March, 1924, since when they have often been heard from other pulpits, platforms, publicists' desks...
From India came a strange tale last week, a new Mowgli* story, a Romulus and Remus anecdote, with the genders changed. Bishop Pakenham Walsh of Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts, the Rev...
With much difficulty the children were "rescued." The youngest soon died in captivity. The other was put in the Rev. Jal Singh's orphanage, where it took months to wean her even slightly from her savage ways. She fiercely tore off the clothes they sewed on her. She bit and clawed when they tried to bathe her. She put her mouth down into her dishes of food, not understanding the use of her hands save as weapons. In time she learned something of their use and acquired a few human words. Weak mentally, she neither laughed nor cried, preferring...
...Very Rev. William Ralph Inge...
...following year Rev. Edward Everett was elected professor on this foundation. Five years later, in 1820, after the death of Samuel Eliot '60 of Boston, it was announced that he had been the founder of this professorship. The Corporation then voted to call the foundation the "Eliot Professorship of Greek Literature," and further, that "they are apprized of Mr. Eliot's sincere reluctance at the idea of receiving a posthumous distinction of this nature, in consequence of his beneficence to the University; but that they are also satisfied that he would submit his private wishes in this particular to public...