Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...professors and instructors have been selected from a wide range of other universities and institutions of learning, and the same liberality has been shown in the selection of these instructors from all religious denominations. Naturally the largest number are Congregationalists, but there are also representatives from the Baptist and Methodist denominations; from the Roman Catholic church, and perhaps even from others. The same thing is true of the students themselves. They come from families belonging to all denominations and have clubs made up of members from all the principal preparitory schools in the land. These facts may be characteristic...
...William Lawrence preached at Appleton chapel last evening, taking as his text John vii, 24 26, where Christ gives his testimony for John the Baptist and tells the people that John was not the reed shaken before the was not the reed shaken before the wind, nor the man clothed in soft raiment, but the prophet. These three symbols are types of characters that are before us to choose front; the reed is the man in college or in public life who is blown hither and thither by every breeze and unable to stand firm against temptation...
Some eight months ago Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, of New York, originated the project of a university in Chicago. He at once communicated with the American Baptist Educational society to the effect that he would donate $600,000 as a nucleus for a college endowment fund. The conditions of his gift were that the money should not be used for purchasing a site or erecting buildings, but that the income should be used to defray current expenses. He also stipulated that $400,000 additional should be raised to be used for general purposes and the remainder to become a part...
...Baptist...