Word: unitarianism
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...Methodist preacher, sent out an appeal to Bostonians for cast-off clothing to give to the poor in the South End slums. He called his drive an "enterprise of the heart," but he combined the heart with a great deal of energy and common sense. As director of the Unitarian Church's famous multidenominational Henry Morgan Mission, Preacher Helms paid unemployed workers to clean and repair the clothes, then sold them at low prices to slum dwellers. He decided to renovate cast-off furniture and any other articles people would give him, until now Goodwill Industries repairs and sells...
...Reverend Leslie T. Pennington, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, will be preacher for the Baccalaureate Service. The Reverend Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, is chaplain for the event...
...worth it." The writing hobo was a 28-year-old Norwegian immigrant with goldrimmed spectacles and an aristocratic face. In Norway he had been a cobbler's apprentice, woodsman, stevedore and road navvy. He had come steerage to the U.S., worked for tight-fisted Wisconsin farmers, taught Unitarian Sunday school in Minneapolis, driven a horsecar in Chicago (where he was fired for letting his horse plod past waiting passengers while he read Euripides...
...Other candidates (or presumed" candidates): Dwight Eisenhower (brought up in the Brethren in Christ church, now an "intensely religious" nonsectarian), Robert Taft (Episcopalian), Douglas MacArthur (Episcopalian), Adlai Stevenson (Unitarian...
Prim Reputation. Why has Harvard's Divinity School lagged behind? Part of the answer is that, although avowedly nondenominational, it has long been known chiefly as a training, ground for Unitarian clergy. This gave Harvardmen of other denominations little incentive for supporting the school. Another reason is sheer neglect. While Harvard graduates talked proudly of their law school, or their undergraduate philosophy courses, the Divinity School, its endowment steadily falling behind, was of interest only to a small group of alumni who admired its prim, scholarly reputation...