Word: akin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Bishop Warren Akin Candler, 84, oratorical champion of Southern Methodism for over 50 years; brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler; in Atlanta. With a $1,000,000 gift from Brother Asa, he expanded little Emory College into a university, was its chancellor from 1914 to 1921. As active Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1898 to 1934, he was a leader in the fight against unification of his own church with Methodist Protestants and Northern Methodists, commented when unification won in 1939: "It's done now. I'm going to keep...
...Lotz, WellesleyBayard Osborn Mary-Edgar Reilly, Chapin School, N. Y.Frederic D. Powell Margaret Bacon, WellesleyWilliam Rich Mary-Ruth Gillispie, WellesleyHarold W. Smith Jean Drake, SmithJoseph Smith Jeanne Hoffman, Harrisburg, Penn.Thomas Stanton Virginia Vail, GarlandDonald Talmage Priscilla Parker, NewtonRichard Thayer Doris Scott, Katherine GibbsRobert Wilcox Betty McArthur, RadcliffeMOWER HALLPaul B. Akin Katherine Murphy, WellesleySheldon Berman Shirley Gordon, WellesleyL. Roydon Briggs, II Mary-Elizabeth Clark, WellestonWilliam B. Frymark Suzanne Foster, WellesleyThomas P. Mulkeen Robin Dennis, WellesleyJohn Pickering, Jr. Sarah Coughlan, VassarSTOUGHTON HALLRichard A. Beyer Pat Lord, WellesleyRobert G. Knight Katherine Magee, SmithHenry H. Meyer, Jr. Evelyn Bird, WinsorRoland E. Mueser Barbara Fisher...
...scream of sirens, seven fire trucks invaded the Yard last night in response to an alarm sent in by Paul B. Akin '44 upon the discovery of a fire in Holden Chapel...
...When I passed the building earlier in the evening," Akin said, "I saw a group of persons leaving, one of whom were a Greek helmet, another a turban, and a third carried a spear." He and three of his friends noticed the fire during a bull session in Mower Hall...
...they had enough leisure to make many purely artistic objects, some of no recognizable use. Their carvings are vaguely akin to Eskimo work but so sophisticated and elaborate as to indicate a relation with some centre of advanced culture - perhaps Japan or southern Siberia -certainly older than the Aztec or Mayan...