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...miraculous birth and acts of Christ, as to His atoning work, His resurrection, His personal return, or any other doctrine of the Presbyterian Church . . . the new board at its first meeting made the following corporate declaration: '. . . the temporary board of directors feels that it has a solemn mandate . . . to do nothing whatever to alter the distinctive traditional position which the seminary has maintained throughout its history...
...save as it may be related to the real purposes of the university and no predilections one way or the other in the matter; it seems unfortunate that at least one consideration has been overlooked in the discussion of the ways and means of conducting those more or less solemn rituals around which these discussions and--presumably, if one may judge from them--our intellectual processes are henceforth in some fashion to revolve that is to say the meals. It is that, for nearly 300 years, the students of Harvard College have, in fact, had the curious custom of eating...
Conceived as a "Cathedral of the Air" by the Rev. Gill Robb Wilson of Trenton, N. J., onetime National Chaplain of the American Legion, the chapel's solemn purpose is to memorialize the U. S. military dead, particularly those of the aviation service. Under the auspices of the New Jersey American Legion, famed Philadelphia Architect Paul Phillipe Cret has prepared plans for a sturdy Norman-Gothic edifice with a steep-gabled carillon tower, suggesting the village churches of France. A minute side chapel, seating possibly a score, will have altar vessels of duralumin salvaged from the wreck of the Naval...
...Boston, the bell atop Faneuil Hall tolled mournfully. Beneath it men wearing black neckties, women wearing black rosettes packed into the historic old building. On the platform sat solemn elders in deep mourning. The Liberal Civic League had called the meeting "In memoriam of the death of Liberty and the 1,363 who have been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band...
...barely twoscore had eyes. Radio voices can leap the Atlantic, but not yet radio vision. Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime Minister at his elbow and solemnly pronounced open the Naval Conference of the Five greatest powers...