Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock--Baccalaureate sermon in the Memorial Church, followed by President Lowell's reception to the Senior class...
...usual, partly right. I, who am well past thirty, can't remember a sentence of A. Lawrence Lowell's baccalaureate sermon of June, 1921. But I can recall a good deal of the sermon at chapel on class day morning. Some notable divine was supposed to give it, but he had a call elsewhere or something, and the saintly George Herbert Palmer, already professor emeritus for several years, pinch hit for him. Most of us knew him only as the author of some required freshman reading. "Self-Cultivation in English," and we were faintly disappointed...
...Hearst was slow in getting under way. being still excited over the "foreign entanglements'' which the U. S. had incurred by its Disarmament policy. (On the day when its front page "bared" the "Morgan deals." the New York Evening Journal's editorial page carried a Brisbanal sermon on Brain v. Brawn.) But presently Publisher Hearst crashed out with a signed editorial for the front pages of his morning papers. Theme (from Democrat Raskob's reply to Morgan's invitation to buy stock on the "inside") : "I hope I will be able to reciprocate...
...Hill's career was strong-arming on a Chicago newspaper route with the late Dion O'Banion, who was later killed in his flower shop, supposedly by that former Brooklynite, Al Capone. In 1923, a fugitive from justice, Lou Hill staggered into a Springfield mission, heard a sermon which converted him. He says he returned to Chicago to give himself up but District Attorney Robert E. Crowe, impressed, turned him loose...
...administration had found it increasingly difficult to keep members of the Board of Preachers at home over the week ends, and most of the visiting preachers were unable to keep office hours after the day on which they delivered the sermon. There was also felt the need of a pastor with whom students could consult on any religious problems that might arise. Recently there has been close cooperation between the office of the Adviser on Religion and the pastors in charge of young people's work in the churches that are attended by Harvard...