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...Chisholm, Tim of Bush Valley. Editor Charles Agnew MacLean. Popular...
...social service and visiting nurse work. Its present abode, antiquated and inadequate, was erected in 1892. Now it will launch a drive?the first public appeal it has ever made?to complete the building fund. Members of the committee in charge of this fund are: Thatcher M. Brown, Cornelius Agnew, the Rev. Dr. George Alexander, Robert W. Carle, Henry W. de Forest, Samuel H. Fisher, W. E. S. Griswold, Johnston de Forest, Dean Sage, William Sloane Coffin...
...divine, will preach his farewell sermon to the congregation of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan. No evangelical church in the U. S. has a wider reputation. The question of a successor to Dr. Kelman assumes international interest. Three of the last five pastors have been British.* George B. Agnew, committeeman, stated that an American was now desired. Two were mentioned : Charles F. Wishart, of Wooster, O., present moderator of the Presbyterian Church, theologically moderate; Maitland Alexander, of Pittsburgh, dominant fundamentalist. The tradition of the church is said to be fundamentalist. Dr. Kelman, now retiring, is liberally inclined...
...Agnew, director of Punch: " Sailing from New York on the Acquitania, I said to interviewers: ' There are too many gigglers in America and I feel that it requires too little effort to make Americans laugh. Americans are gayer and enjoy themselves more than the British, because America is more prosperous than England...
Irving S. Cobb: " Said I (apropos of some remarks by E. S. Agnew, Punch Director): ' Americans have a better sense of humor than the British because they have the British to laugh at. The British can't laugh very well because it is difficult to laugh over adenoids, with which all Britishers are afflicted.' " Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler...