Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian Department of National Revenue received $12 in "conscience money" last week. Changed (converted), someone had been guided by God to make restitution. A small thing, this was only one of the many tangible results of a recent Canadian tour by the Oxford Groups, or First Century Christian Fellowship, of Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman. In Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, there had been quiet times, testimonials, sharing, guidance, luminous thoughts. Dr. Buchman lunched with Canada's pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. The Groups were welcomed to Montreal by Anglican Bishop John Cragg Farthing. In Toronto a minister...
...eleven Christians of long ago, they had come from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.* The first Fisk Singers made $50 from their concert in the Vine Street Church. They turned it over to refugees from the Chicago fire which broke out next day, and set out on a tour which paved a glory-road for all Fisk Singers to come. Known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers they arrived in New York, reluctantly put spirituals on their programs and went to sing in Henry Ward Beecher's Church in Brooklyn. The first time he heard them Preacher Beecher, as ardent...
...From Cincinnati the Fisk Choir's tour takes it to Cleveland, Pittsfield, Mass., Hartford, Providence, New Haven, Boston, Worcester, Manhattan, Syracuse, Akron...
...teeth pulled. To the astonished neighbor the professor explained: "I looked up my legal rights and found that I was justified." Professor Piccard's motive was fear that the dog might bite the Piccard children, whom he left behind in Brussels last week as he started a tour of the Western Hemisphere to lecture. Mme Piccard, grumping bitterly over the interruption of her home life, and two of their five children accompanied him to Paris, through the gritty tunnels of Normandy to bleak Le Havre, waved forlornly as a big liner carried their hero down the barren harbor toward...
Armed with 60 tinted photographs of diverse scenes in and about Harvard, J. L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House, will leave tomorrow night on a lecture tour which will take him to Harvard clubs in eight principal cities of the West and Middle West; the tour is part of the annual program of the Speakers Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association, which is attempting to acquaint alumni all over the country with recent developments at Harvard by conducting a series of nation-wide lectures; this year, these are to be given by President Lowell...