Word: vespers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students must attend daily chapel services and a vesper service on Sundays. Courses of Biblical Study are required through the first two years of the school...
...their event they call the competition "very rough." Entering officially for the Union Boat Club down-river from Weld Boathouse, they say the "outfit to beat" will come from the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia. This shell will be manned by Owen J. Tolland and William Knecht, one an Olympic and one a previous national champion...
Last week Greece's Primate Archbishop Spyridon climbed the same hill to conduct vesper services and speak in commemoration of St. Paul's declaration. Not much of Christian Athens turned out for the occasion with King Paul, Queen Frederika, Prime Minister Venizelos and the diplomatic corps. But 200-odd pilgrims from 57 Christian denominations and a score of countries listened and were moved. Said Episcopal Bishop Lauriston Livingston Scaife of Western New York, afterwards: "Chills went up and down my spine...
Harold Ockenga has kept the old fires burning. Shocked at the goings-on under Boston Common's shadowy trees during the long summer evenings, he made it a practice to preach from the Parkman bandstand after his regular vesper services. When city authorities refused to renew his permit, he had an outdoor pulpit built on to the church, from which he and his assistants regularly address the Common's assortment of bums, tarts, sailors, tourists and Harvard boys...