Word: sects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...donations and hopes of an eventual $5,000,000 endowment, the University started out in the sombre brick high school building in which John Thomas Scopes once taught Evolution. It has since built dormitories and an administration hall. Bryan admitted students of any religion or sect but its faculty and officers were caused to sign an eight-point credo of such stout Fundamentalism as to make even the Apostles' Creed seem liberal. Bryan put on its letterhead: "An Institution which Recognizes Revelation and Accepts the Supernatural." Last week Bryan demonstrated it would not falter. Henceforth matriculants will be obliged...
...Education SM43 Emerson D English SE Warren House 211 English S14 Emerson 211 English S29b Harvard 2 Fine Arts S5s Robinson Lect. Room A Fine Arts S17 Fogg Mus. Small Lect. Hall French S1 Harvard 1 French S3 Harvard 3 French S4 Harvard 6 German SD (11 o'clock sect.) Harvard 1 German SF Sever 15 Government S28 Harvard 3 History S34 Emerson C Mathematics SIV Harvard 6 Music S4a Music Building 2 Philosophy SA (1st half) Emerson 211 Physics SC (2th half year) Harvard 6 Physchology S4 Emerson 211 2 P. M. Chinese S10 Emerson 211 Economics S3 Emerson...
...France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted building, the Morada, headquarters of the Penitentes. "Nowadays...
...light of Japan's dazzling conquest in Manchuria who was right: the few Japanese statesmen and financiers who stood out against war or the youths who murdered them? In Tokyo last week 13 youths, Blood Brothers of the patriotic murder sect led by strapping Priest Nissho Inouye, were brought to trial with him. At his bidding they assassinated last year ex-Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye (who argued that the Japanese budget could not support a war) and Japan's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (convinced to the roots of his gentle soul that the Mitsui business...
...simple life of toil and worship is that of Amish Colony of the Mennonite sect on the central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would...