Word: worshiping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fetish worship, superstititions, and plain personal peculiarities flourish to a large extent among University students, it was ascertained by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...cases of what commonly is known as a "swelled head." The discase is not fatal, but while it lasts it does its victims a deal of harm. Football is a spectacular game, anyhow, and the more formidable players are made the subjects of an extraordinary amount of hero worship and general publicity. Greatly to their credit be it said that many of these young men "come through" with their modesty and dignity unimpaired; but the atmosphere which must, pervade such a dinner, with its implications of commercialism of various kinds, is not good for them...
...ceremonial worship of some unknown god, the Mayas played a game which might be the ancestor of our modern game of basketball" declared Dr. Morley in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "We have found the great stone courts in which this game was played. The floor measured 100 yards long and 30 yards wide. The court was not enclosed at the ends, but the side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter...
...Coffin does not seek "the lowest common denominator, a minimum creed and worship to which none can object." Said he: "Anarchy is not an open question with the teachers and students in a school of law. . . . Christian Science is not an open question with the faculty of a college of physicians and surgeons. . . . Union Theological Seminary is committed to the cause of Jesus Christ, to His faith and His purpose and His redeeming power, to training men and women to spread His Gospel. . . . His supremacy as the revelation of God and the Savior of the world is not an open...
...fine flower of Harvard, though some of the best men do go rather often. (It must be remembered that an average daily attendance of seventy-five means that several hundred men attend on an average once or twice a week throughout the year). But those who go, go to worship; they do not go under constraint, as at Williams, nor because they think they ought to do their duty to God, to country, and to Yale, as at least some men are doing at New Haven...