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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people to attend worship. He delved in the mysteries of non-Christian worship, had Parsees, Chinese, Amerindians conduct their rituals in his church. He invited people like Dancers Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, Poet Amy Lowell, Actresses Helen Menken and Eva Le Gallienne, Astrologist Evangeline Adams, to speak at afternoon or evening services. But when, on St. Nicholas Eve in 1923, Dr. Guthrie had six bare-legged but amply-clad Barnard College girls perform eurythmic dances in St. Marks, austere Bishop Manning blew up. He cut off St. Marks from his episcopal visiting list, so that its people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: O Beautiful | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...inclusion of prominent alumni in a program of speakers that already includes Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas E. Dewey was decided upon. A public forum on the open versus the closed shop in the University was planned for January. Robert Watt, Massachusetts Secretary of the A. F. of L. will speak for the closed shop, and a prominent employer from Boston will be sought to present the other point of view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAGUARDIA AND DEWEY TO TALK IN H.S.U. FORUM | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

Members of the Faculty who have consented to speak are Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, Theodore Morrison '23, instructor in English, Francis O. Matthiesson, associate professor in History and Literature, and Eliot Norton, dramatic critic of the Boston "Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPENCER RADIORATES | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

President Conant will speak informally as guest of honor tonight at the annual dinner of the New England Alumni Association of Phillips Exeter Academy at 7 o'clock at the Boston Chamber of Commerce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Perry to Address Exeter Alumni at Annual Dinner Gathering Tonight | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

Lately Dr. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Neglect the Needless | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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