Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, has accepted the invitation of President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College, to deliver the Commencement address there next June, it was announced yesterday, John Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, will give the Baccalaureate Sermon at the exercises...
...Universalist Church in Lansing. Mich, two Sundays ago, Rev. Henry Clay Ledyard preached calmly, quietly in this vein to a congregation which had come to hear his valedictory sermon on Why I Am Not a Christian. Universalist Ledyard, 57, had held the Lansing pulpit since 1935, had espoused the cause of the Automobile Workers last spring,* had been the one Lansing preacher who accepted their invitation to preach in the Reo factory during their sitdown. Mr. Ledyard's congregation rebelled. Resigning as of last week, the young-looking minister made ready to become organization director of the Quarry Workers...
Last week, on approximately the 162nd anniversary of this Lutheran hero's greatest sermon, the United Lutheran Church in America took to the radio to honor him and itself, the date (January 1) being also the 20th anniversary of this largest U. S. Lutheran body (1,523,022 members), which was formed by merging three of the many scattered groups which make up U. S. Lutheranism. Listening in on NBC's Red network, Lutherans heard Muhlenberg's recruiting sermon dramatized, heard his connection with "The Cradle of the Nation" glorified by Virginia's Governor George Campbell...
After the unappetizing sight of crowds of families mobbing the Memorial Church for the Seniors' Baccalaureate Sermon, perhaps the next inefficient part of Commencement Week to be considered concerns itself with the habit and practice of Junior Ushers...
Improvements in the arrangements for the Baccalaureate Sermon must be most urgently desired by the senior's supporters who last year crowded about the entrance to Memorial Church long before 1937 filed through the doors. Under the impression that they would not all find seats these people pushed and pulled in a manner unbecoming in the Yard. When the doors were opened, still under the impression that they might not be seated advantageously, they rushed together so that at least one stumbled and came near to being trampled. Of the first comers some found seats in the balcony, while...