Word: sermonizer
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When Dr. Beaven preached his farewell sermon, there was weeping in Lake Avenue Baptist Church. Under its new president Colgate-Rochester (product of a merger in 1928) has grown in stature. This autumn was dedicated its new $2,000,000 Gothic plant, largely the gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Fond of bowling as well as of chopping wood. Dr. Beaven saw to it that bowling alleys were built at the Divinity School. He is tall, well set up, grey-haired, father of three (a fourth child died). On his way to Indianapolis last week Dr. Beaven stopped...
...making mockery of a solemn thing? A Cleveland churchman soon arose so to accuse him. In a Sunday sermon Rev. Howard Harper of Grace Episcopal Church, South, pointed out that the Anglican clergy first took up blessing the hounds because foxes were a menace to the countryside. "The fox is not a pest any longer," said Mr. Harper. "If a fox should cause a modern farmer trouble, the farmer would not assemble his friends and his neighbors, equip them with horns and red coats and ask them to ride to hounds in quest of the offending animal...
Kameradschaft (Nero). "Ethical, not aesthetic values make up the value of this film." If this statement, by George Vil-helm Pabst who directed it, were true, Kameradschaft would of course be a negligible sermon, unfit to be observed. It is on the contrary a powerful and convincing picture of which the ethical values are important because, in his treatment of a coal-mine disaster on the Franco-German border, Director Pabst has implied them so artfully...
...punish all misdemeanors--either by fine, or whipping in the hall openly, as the nature of the offence shall require, not exceeding ten shillings, or ten stripes for one offenses." Until 1734, the flogging often took place in public. Some of the early fines were: neglecting to repeat the sermon, 9d; going out of college without proper costume, 6d; and frequenting taverns, not over 1s., 6d. Opening doors by picklocks was also an offense...
...Testament, and the New Testament lesson will be read by J. L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics. A pronouncement of dedication will be made by W. L. Sperry, Dean of the Theological School. The dedicatory prayer will be offered by The Reverend Professor F. G. Peabody '69. The sermon will be preached by The Right Reverend William Lawrence, and closing prayers will be given by The Right Reverend H. K. Sherrill...