Word: wards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen have a four man team in action against the Pennsylvania first year men this afternoon. M. T. Hill '30, Arthur Ingraham '30, E. B. Ward '30, and R. S. Winslow, '30, will represent the Crimson hopes in the singles against strong opposition. The University of Pennsylvania Freshmen have a formidable record to their credit, having taken the measure of the strong Princeton Freshman racquetmen a week...
George Pearson Rhodes Jr. '30 of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was appointed manager of the Freshman baseball team as the result of an eight week competition which ended yesterday. John Harris Ward '30, of Kansas City, Missouri, was appointed assistant manager...
Rhodes prepared for the University at Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut, while Ward entered Harvard from Andover. Each of these men will receive his class numerals, and will have charge of the conduct of the game with the Yale Freshmen to be played on Soldiers Field this Saturday...
Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
...Henry Ward Beecher preached in 1877: "The nature of God is to suffer for others rather than to make them suffer." This sounded blasphemous at the time. He was as rampant in politics. President Hayes' administration he called "a bread pudding." A Republican from the earliest years of that party, he left it when in 1884 James G. Blaine ran for the Presidency against Grover Cleveland. He called himself a "Mugwump," a political purist. Pastor Beecher was full-blooded; dared not eat red meat. His only outdoor exercise was croquet. He died of aponlexy...