Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock. Baccalaureate Sermon, President James B. Conant, Memorial Church...
...first sermon having been satisfactorily Fundamentalist, Pastor McComb last week faced another test-reception by the liberal Presbytery of New York. Gathered in Fifth Avenue Church, 100 laymen and ministers began by cautiously examining Mr. McComb as to his theology and character, so cautiously that one minister chided them all for ''pussyfooting and chasing around the bush." What was in their minds, he knew, was: would Fundamentalist McComb be loyal to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions? Or was he mixed up in that Independent Board which has caused the Presbyterian Church so much trouble? Mr. McComb finally...
...reproduce such historic utterances as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or Shakespeare's remarks after the opening performance of Hamlet. With more daring than credibility, Playwright, van Druten (Young Woodley) has seized upon the idea of recapturing thoughts expressed in the past as the crux for a dramatic sermon on the wastage of war. A rich and sympathetic husband has provided Naomi Jacklin (Katharine Cornell) with the material to build a mental barricade against her personal War tragedy. In 1914 she was in love with a poet. Life at the front so embittered him that Naomi came to believe...
Bright college years will come to a close for the Class of 1935 with a strenuous week of festivity beginning June 15, and with the Baccalaureate Sermon in the Memorial Church, sweeping up to the grand finale of the Commencement Exercises on Thursday morning...
Monday evening when the Seniors have had ample time to digest the wisdom received in the Sermon, they will have their Senior Spread and Dance, at ten o'clock...