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...authorize the union of one of a pair of '"Siamese" girls to an orchestra leader. The friar, uncertain whether his twins contained one or two souls, solved his problem by baptizing one with the regular ritual, the other with a special ritual reserved for those whose previous baptism is in doubt...
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...weather brings conferences and assemblies. Ministers meet, talk, elect officers, pass resolutions, shake hands, go home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they believe not only in baptism by immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats, the women...
Your issue of Feb. 12 gives credit to a rainy football game of 1923 for the baptism of "Ducky" Pond, whereas . . . The Hill students of that time know that he bore the name "Duck" when he was helping Hotchkiss beat The Hill some three or four years before...
...station which received its baptism last Sunday when an alarm pulled in by Mayor Richard M. Russell '14 of Cambridge, sent the fire engines hurrying from all parts of the city to their new home, is considered as the very latest in modern central fire stations. It was built at a cost of $162,000, and is a part of the $7,000,000 construction program inaugurated by Mayor Russell five years ago when he took office. The cost of the building is rated at 35 cents per cubic foot, as compared with a cost of from...