Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Precisely to what extent the Church of God should influence the affairs of man is a question that can be answered easily in theory; in practice, the solution presents more complexities. Last week, the Federal Council of Churches published a critical report upon the coal controversy in Western Pennsylvania. The report, with equal severity, censured striking miners for their belligerence to non-strikers, the operators for ejecting strikers from their homes. Constructive suggestions were clearly expressed but not striking in their novelty...
...Reverend C. B. Brent, Bon. '13, bishop of Western New York, will make the address, and a musical program under the direction of Professor A. T. Davison '06 will be presented...
This is Springfield's second year of playing lacrosse, and so far the western Massachusetts team has shown considerable scoring power and a fast attack...
...pulpit were in view, as was the communion table covered with a shining linen cloth. The spectators, of whom there were thousands sitting in the balconies, looked up at windows which were illumined by hidden lights. An electric cross was hung in a high arch and in a western balcony, near the invisible organ, sat 65 choristers. This was the opening of the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As well as the 40 bishops, there were present 875 delegates from 35 nations representing some 15,000,000 communicants...
...moves to Claridge's.* Naked heiresses disgust him, aristocratic drawing rooms open to actors and prizefighters amaze. At Cambridge he devours the knowledge which a cultured French friend sorts out for him. When his French friend dies, Jâli mourns him deeply, but ruminates upon the curious Western distaste for death. The East, having learned the desirability of death, celebrates its advent with garish ceremony. In the course of much contemplation, Jâli suddenly notices his circumstantial similarity to Buddha, believes himself the new Buddha, visions "saving" the West. He shaves his head, exchanges "garments by Poole...