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...likely to be on the evidences of primitive mankind in Africa. As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical. The impact of science on the views of Bishop Barnes has lately produced a thick book, compilation of the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1927-29.* Bishop Barnes recalls that at one point in the 19th Century, science seemed about ready to crowd out religion. But science is not yet free of error or boundless in scope. Bishop Barnes travels its length, then looks toward...
...work for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., cultivated his farm, played with his seven children, pondered pedagogy. Last week he announced that next autumn he will open a school for boys. He has acquired "Oakington," the 550-acre estate of the late Commodore Leonard Richards on Chesapeake Bay near Aberdeen, Md. Designed by Stanford White, it contains 25 rooms and a ballroom. Adjacent are a model farm, a garden with venerable boxwood, enough tenant houses for 100 boys and faculty members. The school will be "progressive," carry learning-by-doing to its extreme. Grey-haired at 49, Major Garey talks...
...Remember November!" shrilled a girl's voice in the gallery. She was Elizabeth Heiser, daughter of an Aberdeen, S. Dak. farmer whose home was about to be foreclosed on a $1,000 mortgage. Guards put Miss Heiser out of the gallery while Democrats cheered her challenge...
...Aberdeen, Md. a B. & O. engine was cut loose from a string of freight cars when 400 veterans clambered into empty coal gondolas...
...Dogs? I love dogs. Have four of them. One's an Aberdeen named "Hot Cha Lavinia. I also like music. In fact, I started out as a singer. My study at the Boston Conservatory makes me feel quite at home...