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Opening the first Graduation week in the fourth century of Harvard history will be President Conant's Baccalaureate sermon before the Seniors, their friends, and families in Memorial Church on Sunday, June 20 at 4 o'clock. Afterwards the President will honor the Class with a reception in his home on 17 Quincy Street...
...morning the news came out, the President held one of his regular press conferences. Vexed, he proceeded to read the press a sermon. The report (said Mr. Roosevelt) was essentially cockeyed. There had been a deal of misinformation about Britain's famed Trade Disputes Act and how it works. So, out of the kindness of his heart, he wished to get some information for the press, and especially for editorial writers and columnists. To that end, a commission would go abroad and eventually report in words of one syllable. As for the Wagner Act. he had said before...
Most ministers would grant that Fiorello LaGuardia's pulpit manner is unorthodox, but that his instinctive knowledge of homiletics is good, his exegesis not bad. Excerpt from his sermon to the police: " 'Give us this day our daily bread' is not a figure of speech. . . . What some of us who are called radical are trying to do is to answer that call in His name as He would have us do. That, gentlemen, is why the fight is still on. Christ knew that the symbol of the Cross He died on would be an everlasting reminder...
...Baptist Convention representing 5,000,000 Baptists in 18 States, applauded two frank statements of the Baptist position on unity. A committee thumbed down "any federation, council or what not that would hinder us in the full and free preaching of the whole counsel of God." In the opening sermon, to which Baptists annually look forward as representing the very best tradition of Southern preaching, Dr. John Richard Sampey, retiring president, said: "An intelligent and convinced Baptist, with the New Testament in his hand, finds little to draw him toward a church which denies the competence of the individual soul...
Opening the first Commencement week of Harvard's fourth century, President James Bryant Conant will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon before the Seniors, their friends, and families, assembled in Memorial Church Sunday, June 20, at 4 o'clock...