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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...
Last Sunday Dr. Guthrie bade St. Marks good-by with a tour of its grounds, which date from 1660, when Peter Stuyvesant worshipped there, later to be buried in the churchyard, in which Rector Guthrie still later kept a pair of peafowl. Two Sundays ago in his sermon Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to Bishop William Thomas Manning with whom he had often clashed-"with him came the bigness of head that goes with new office"-and to the Episcopal Church into which he was born: "I don't know any church I could stand as well...
...Stidger has tried out experimentally his prospective course in radio preaching on five of Boston University's 400 theological students. In them he instills his own technique. He broadcasts with his coat off and observes "Ten Radio Commandments": 1) Speak in a conversational tone; 2) Take your sermons not from the Bible, but from life; 3) Leave out the word "I"; 4) Neglect the needless; 5) No bunk; 6) No sob stuff; 7) Make the web of your sermon optimistic, cheerful; 8) Check and recheck your script before delivering . . . for absolute factual accuracy; 9) Keep the word...
...sermon yesterday before a Memorial Church filled to capacity (at least 50 people standing), despite the disagreeable weather, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Riverside Church in New York City emphasized the value of the dependable character, a "fixed point in a changing...