Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five consecutive days of activities will precede the University's 299th Commencement which takes place Thursday, June 23, according to plans announced last night. President Conant will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon in Memorial Church Sunday, while on Monday there will be an oration by Cleanth M. Brooks, professor of English at Yale. Addressing the annual literary exercises of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre, Brooks will speak on "The Present Crisis in Culture...
...almost impossible to hear a speech from any priest or prelate in which Communism was not the dominant theme. I once saw a beautiful congress of children marred by a philippic against Soviet Russia. The thousands of children taking part might so easily have been stirred by a sermon on the beauty of the Church of God. Nor was it possible to doubt that a more certain blow would have been struck against Communism by deepening the faith of those children than by playing over the anti-Communist record for their parents. "Of course Catholics should refuse to sleep while...
Church in Paris in the '80s was a family affair and people took their denominational differences more seriously. "[Today] we have the strange spectacle . . . of people refusing to worship together, while not knowing just why . . . [In the old days] the tobacco chewers always did their spitting at sermon climaxes, the juice hitting the floor with a resounding smack as a sort of substitute for a cheer...
...Malayan prison camp such as Panchor. The thought has never for a moment occurred to Chaplain Choyce. He is known to the officers and men as "the Padre with-the Modern Approach." .Bustling with professional cheerfulness, he has a pat formula for every distress and a manly chin-up sermon for every misery, but he is about as spiritual as an auctioneer. And then he meets Andros, a soldier whose inability, or unwillingness, to identify himself is taken by the British medics behind the barbed wire as a sign of malingering. Chaplain Choyce discovers in the swarthy soldier a depth...
Sunday, June 18--Baccalaureate Service at 3:30 p.m. in Memorial Church. President Conant will give the sermon...