Word: thornton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thornton Whaling of Louisville, Ky., moderator of the Southern Presbyterian Churches: "Christ is the solution of all moral and spiritual problems. . . . Social reforms are the results and are truly secondary to the spiritual mission of the churches...
This announcement was made last week by Dr. Thornton Whaling, Moderator of No. 2, who concluded his defense of "Federal union" by the following parable...
...Charles Holt Taylor, 3G, of Maplewood, N. J., a Bayard Cutting Fellowship; Paul Richard Harmel 1G, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Hartshorne 3G, of Phoenixville, Pa., Rogers Fellowships; Jay W. Jacobs of Carthage, Mo., an Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship; Howard Kennedy Beale 3G, of Chicago, III., a John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship; and James Phinney Baxter 3d, 2G, of Belmont, and Harold Van Vechten Fay 3G, of Auburn, N. Y., honorary, John Harvard Fellowships...
...following men were elected to membership in the Sodality; Dexter Selden Paine '25 of Brookline; Lee Osher Combs '26 of Long Beach, California; Donald Coats Gates '26 of New York City; Robert Thornton Smith of Saco, Maine; Benjamin Brewster 2ES, of Dedham; John Warren Knedler Jr. '24 of Moscow, Pennsylvania; David Waller Bakeless '26 of Bloomer, Pennsylvania; and Randolph Piper, '27 of Lexington...
...solution Thornton finds for his disillusionment is at best a philosophy of compromise. He goes back to teaching in the technical school, saying: "If I can only save some of them from waste, the waste I went through, the waste of spirit I see everywhere about me in our life today, I shall be content. I don't know that it can be done, that waste is not inherent, inevitable, in the process of living, but it is worth the effort...