Word: write
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Freeman. The Right Reverand James Edward Freeman, bishop of Washington, oversees these diocesan works. He is a great strapping man, and a good liver. Men like him. They write him letters after he speaks his resonant lyricism over the radio. They give him money when he asks for it. The Washington Cathedral project has taken renewed vigor since his Episcopal resumption in 1923. Before that he was, for two years, rector of Epiphany Church in Washington; before that, for 11 years, rector of St. Marks Church in Minneapolis. While he was in Minneapolis he was elected Bishop Coadjutor...
Hibben is out of his element when he attempts to write a biography of Beecher. It has already been done so much better than he could ever hope to do it. He reminds one of a second-rate doctor who was called to prescribe for a sick child. His medicine was not beneficial and the child grew worse. Finally the family doctor, a first class physician, was called. He did not criticise the parents for calling the other. He simply said: "Dr. Jones knows something about the disease he thinks is afflicting little Freddie ; but he doesn't know...
During several years constant, thorough and appreciative reading of your splendid newsmagazine, I have until now, resisted the oft-occuring temptation to write you in commendation of your policy in the set-up of your periodical, but since reading Mr. John Palmer Gavit's letter in TIME. Oct. 3, I want to say "Amen" to all that he said, and to add that his letter is by far the best one on the subject that I have seen, and I am confident of having read all of them to date...
...does not "Denny" honor us and his school by mentioning its name in his letter ? You doubtlessly have "spotted" his school by looking at the postmark on his letter. Perhaps he was wise enough to write during vacation...
...Vagabond still is unable to find time or inclination to write about lectures other than those which academic requirements force him to attend. Those more fortunate or less conscientious may find interest in the following...