Word: union
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small (membership, some 1,250,000), comparatively poor, but with extraordinary social prestige and in an extraordinarily strategic political position. High-church Episcopalians pull toward Rome; low-church Episcopalians pull toward the other Protestant sects. An Episcopalian episode of last week showed clearly the sort of obstacle confronting the union of all brethren in Christ...
...Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at his church, St. George's. A feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning's legalistic views wondered whether he would allow such a service to be held in one of his Episcopal churches.* Said the bishop: "I have nothing...
...congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop's; his moral position better. The communion service was shifted to the chapel of Union Theological Seminary; the other sessions of the league were held at St. George...
...biennial dance held by the Harvard Union in honor of the Yale-Harvard football game will take place this evening from 10 until 3 o'clock. The music for the party will again be furnished by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a delegation from the Yale Glee Club has, as in former years, been invited to be present at the entertainment...
...evening the Vagabond will try a sleight of hand trick to produce a Union card and then proceed to the Union Living Room where the author of "John Brown's Body", Stephen Vincent Benet, will talk on some aspects of modern writing...