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...Bacons gave a political tea party for 700 members of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women. Last month at the home of the W. 0. N. P. R.'s vivacious Pauline Morton Sabin, no less a partisan than Alfred Emanuel Smith had officiated at Candidate Whitney's political baptism. The first pitfall into which the candidate tumbled was admitting that he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928. Son of the late sportsman Harry Payne Whitney, grandson of Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney is 33. He pulled bow oar on Yale's varsity crew, was sued...
Today a motley, apprehensive horde of youth will undergo their fiery baptism of registration. The prevailing atmosphere of bewildered anxiety insures the experienced a profitable hunting; but with calm evening and the Yard emerges a sense of reassurance. Their names have been recognized, they have received confusingly minute instructions, and the first term bill is already due; there is the essence. Within a few short weeks the transition will be complete. As individuals they will have graduated to Freshman agnosticism and crew cuts, to indifference and gabardine; there is the effect. They are Harvard...
...moderation in religion. But through his time swept a hot blast of evangelism, chiefly in the Methodist and Baptist faiths. General Washington one day went to Rev. John Gano, chaplain in the Continental Army, and exclaimed: "I have been investigating the Scripture, and I believe immersion to be baptism taught in the Word of God, and I demand it at your hands. I do not wish any parade made or the army called out, but simply a quiet demonstration of the ordinance." In the presence of 42 witnesses George Washington was immersed in the Potomac; but he did not give...
...virgin. The great paschal candle typifies Christ's flesh, its wick His soul, its flame the all-absorbing Divinity. On Candlemas Day (Feast of the Purification, Feb. 2) there is a special ceremony for blessing candles. A burning candle is placed in the hand of a person at baptism, and as Death comes...
...fixer, one Stephen Karsay. who got him admitted despite a numerus clausus (enrolment limitation) ruling directed against Jews. Later Student David found that Fixer Karsay had taken a laborer named Ziesander Cripeler to a priest, had him baptized under the name of Andreas David. In spite of the fraudulent baptism certificate. Student David wanted to be listed at the University as a Jew. He did not wish to be a Christian even on paper. Last week the Budapest High Tribunal again postponed his case. Much vexed was Andreas David, for Fixer Karsay had fled to Czechoslovakia, Ziesander Cripeler had gone...