Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared Bishop William Fraser McDowell, President of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church last year in describing the selection of the site of the Methodist Building on Capitol Hill...
...26th is the "Yankee Division." National Guardsmen from Maine. They have placed their church not upon the ancient stones of the old site, but on the tourist-ridden highway from Paris to Château-Thierry and Metz; not over the tombs of long-dead Frenchmen, but beside the 2nd Division cemetery...
...Full committee hearings were held on a plan for a sliding scale of sugar duties proposed by Chairman Reed Smoot as a substitute for the flat rate in the House tariff bill. Senator Smoot spent the weekend with President Hoover at the latter's Shenandoah National Park camp site, returned convinced that the President will approve the bill if his sliding scale is inserted, pondered sugar solemnly with the President...
...Shrewd observers soon suspected an excellent motive behind the Archbishop's words. They recalled that Liverpool is already the site of a great Anglican cathedral, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, under construction since 1903. Modern in adaptation, it is however definitely Gothi-cized?a rugged, buttressed mass, patterned with ogival decoration, which will ultimately surge upward in an enormous square tower. Presumably the Catholic Archbishop wished to confront the neighboring Anglican diocese with a different architecture as well as creed...
...Princeton's doctrinal wars, made the opening address, said: "The old Princeton under this new board is doomed." Prof. Robert Dick Wilson told of the call from students for a school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University of Pennsylvania. Later these three men agreed to leave Princeton, to teach the following subjects at the new school: Dr. Machen-New Testament; Dr. Wilson- Old Testament criticism; Semitic philology. Committees were formed Westminster Theologies tentatively adopted, pledges of 22,000 made...