Word: sermon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whether or not a sermon may be justly termed a "dull, uninteresting lecture" is more or less a matter of opinion. The CRIMSON'S opinion on this point differs radically from that expressed in the Advocate editorial. In few churches are poor sermons so rare and exceptional sermons so frequent as in Appleton Chapel. A reading of the Advocate editorial would lead one to believe that seldom are distinguished preachers brought to the Chapel. A glance at the list of men who have preached this year will show that there have been but few Sundays when the pulpit...
Perhaps "The Glorious 17th" was a sermon on home ethics--who knows? Isn't there a sort of heart-string appeal in the placid features of the old man and the worried expression of his spouse? The fact that this group is of a race which the author forgets to name is simply because the 17th of March happened to be the most timely holiday to portray. If the issue had come next month, the "27th of April" would have done, being observed as a holiday among the Madagascans...
...McConnell, D.D., LL.D., president of DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, will deliver a memorial sermon on Washington at Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 8.45 o'clock. Special music will be rendered under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison, Jr., '06. Members of the University chorus will join with the choir in singing a patriotic song, the music for which is taken from Marschner, the words being a poem entitled "Our Country" written by H. Hagedorn...
...benefit of those who are not familiar with the morning service, we may say that it consists of singing by the choir, responsive reading, a short sermon and prayer, and a hymn, the whole lasting but 15 minutes...
...meeting of the 1911 Class Day Committee held yesterday afternoon Richard Clark Floyd, of Brookline, was elected chairman. This committee has charge of the Senior Spread and dances, the baccalaureate sermon, the exercises in Sanders Theatre, the Stadium exercises, and the Class Day festivities in the Yard...