Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday afternoon before the opening of the term there is a special and very busy meeting of the members of the office staff of the Board of Freshman Advisers. A list of the Freshmen admitted in September is received from the Committee on Admission and these men are then assigned to Advisers. The assignments are put on cards which are placed in the registration envelopes of the Freshmen, so that few of the men admitted in September come to the office of the chairman on Monday to find out the names of their Advisers. The only information immediately available concerning...
...Sunday the cause of religion suffered another attack when the forces of the Salvation Army invaded New York's Greenwich Village, to convert the wayward inhabitants. The attacking army consisted of a single old gentleman armed with an umbrella. When the band played "Abide With Me", he refused, and shouting, "I don't believe in religion of any sort," belabored the commanding Major about the head with his weapon. In this instance, the temerity of revivalism in attempting to usurp the place where so many lost causes have died in peace may be criticized. But no one can but commend...
...reports in the paper of last Sunday's sermons betray an almost complete devotion to denunciation. Spiritual affairs were neglected for exaggerated portrayals of the menace of companionate marriage, agnosticism, militarism, and the holding of opinions instead of convictions. The churches, like the Salvation Army, might possibly devote more time to the harmony and volume of their figurative bands, and thus there is a probability that the sound of whacking umbrellas might be drowned out completely...
...Greater New York Federation of Churches began its radio activities by broadcasting Bishop Herbert Shipman's sermon from a public meeting in Manhattan. Since then the Federation has broadcast daily morning prayers, a weekly Youths Radio Conference, a weekly interdenominational service, a weekly hymn service, a Sunday vesper service. Last autumn, the sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Union Theological Seminary and of the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan, were added to the vesper services. Last week, these were formally organized as the National Church of the Air. A representative of the radio committee of the Federation...
Married. The youngest son of Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Paul Thompson Sunday; to Mrs. Elene Herbert, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at Tijuana, Mexico, to escape California's three-day marriage license...