Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Classical criteria for judging Biblical and secular literature are no longer adequate, the Reverend Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, asserted last night in his third lecture of the William Belden Noble series, "Theology and Aesthetic Judgement...
...value from $100,000, the amount raised to found the college, to its present finaincial value of $36,000,000, of which half is in endowment. Most Tufts men are familiar with the story of how its original funds were raised. At a Universalist convention in New York the Reverend Ballou preached the sermon to open the convention on the forty-eighth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke: "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of them will they ask the more...
...Reverend Thomas Hiscox was painted by a New World follower of Smibert, named Robert Feke. A devout Baptist, Feke portrayed the Baptist minister with the utmost simplicity and force. Hiscox stands above the viewer, as in a pulpit. Though the minister's hair has a certain flowing grace, the rest of him does not. He looks like a bullfrog. The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open. Meanwhile, the brilliantly modeled eyes focus with disdain upon someone in the back row−whether a sinner or a sneezer...
With dress informal, and with a social hour to follow, Vesper services will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sundays throughout the summer in Memorial Church. The Reverend Robert J. Lamont of the First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, will preach at the opening program on July 8, and among the guest clergymen in following weeks will be the Reverend G. Bromley Oxnam, who will preach on July...
William Holden, wearing a mustache and a scowl, plays a hard-boiled Marine colonel who flourishes a swagger stick, derides the Red Cross for dishing out "sentimental slop" to his boys, eats out a chaplain simply because the troops, attending a prayer meeting called by the reverend, got sprayed by Japanese mortar shells...