Word: coliseum
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...religious note dominated the conference. Strung across the ceiling over the stage of the Des Moines Coliseum in enormous letters was the motto: "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation." When the speakers of the afternoon--John R. Mott and Robert Speer--set forth the case for a strictly evangelical mission, some of the delegates were bored, and not a few had the feeling that the leaders of the convention were out of date...
...University delegation to Des Moines found in the conferences he attended there quite the opposite of what he expected. Men looked forward to a discussion of broad religious problems with their economic and political bearings. What they got, for the most part, from the speeches in the big Coliseum was narrow sectarian religion. It is all very well to tell your audience to think of the most beautiful thing in the world and then conceive God as something still more beautiful--that was the substance of Dr. Robert E. Speer's address in the opening session of the convention...
...would be superficial, however, to judge the conference merely from the speeches delivered in the Coliseum. An opportunity was afforded to meet and exchange views with men from other colleges and throughout the world, a chance, as one man expressed it, "to get the dope on yourself" that could not have been offered by a small convention or through ordinary discussion. There was something remarkably imposing in the mere sight of seven thousand delegates representing all races and nationalities gathered under a single roof. That was one of the things which helped make the conference broad...