Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children of families connected with the University, if accompanied by an older person, are invited to be present at the afternoon service. Children of families who worship at the chapel have been requested to bring toys or gifts of any sort to the carol services. These gifts will be distributed by the nurses of the Cambridge Visiting Nurses' Home...
...Stevenson Myth." It is an open question whether Stevenson is loved more for his work or his work for him. Certainly the worship of authors has never gone to greater lengths?lengths possibly of questionable value to their object. Idolatry has made of R. L. S. a figure dizzily perched on the precarious eminence of perfection. He is permitted no faults, no weaknesses?other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile...
...Hardwick summed up his feeling toward his old teacher in a significant fashion. "I came to Harvard placing Mr. Haughton on a pedestal. He was the idol of a boy's intense hero worship, I worked three years under that idol, and I left college even a greater disciple of, not 'Mr. Haughton', but my close friend...
...tells us to worship a God in our own image. We are black, and to be in our image God must , be black. Our people have been lynched and burned in the South because we have been worshiping a false God. But what can you expect when we have adopted the idolism of another race? We must create a God of our own and give this new religion to the Negroes of the world...
...Independents: "One of the greatest exhibitions of an instinct to be good divorced completely from the obligation to be intelligent lies in the tendency of those unripe in American politics to worship mere independence. I confess that I have found that independence is a bad way to get joint action of any kind in real motion. Usually when two independents rally around the banner of independence it results in two banners of independence and then four and then eight. No man or woman in the world is so independent as an independent. As political workers they are usually fanatically unselfish...