Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many tangible results of a recent Canadian tour by the Oxford Groups, or First Century Christian Fellowship, of Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman. In Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, there had been quiet times, testimonials, sharing, guidance, luminous thoughts. Dr. Buchman lunched with Canada's pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. The Groups were welcomed to Montreal by Anglican Bishop John Cragg Farthing. In Toronto a minister of the United Church of Canada, Rev. Dr. James Little, was so changed that for the first time in 20 years he was able to pray successfully. A Toronto businessman and his wife joined...
...offered freedom if he would enlist in the Union Army. He enlisted, came down with dysentery, was discharged as unfit for further service, and ended the war in the Navy. Discovering a gift for journalism, he put it to work, finally took the eye of James Gordon Bennett, then No.1 U. S. newspaperman, editor of the New York Herald...
When pious, eccentric Explorer David Livingstone vanished into Africa's interior and nothing was heard of him for over three years, he was regarded as "lost"; his disappearance became a newsworthy fact. Most resoundingly newsworthy fact, thought Editor Bennett, would be Livingstone's "discovery." He picked Stanley for the job, gave him carte blanche, sent him to Africa by a circuitous route. It took Stanley two years, cost him 23 bouts of tropical fever, cost Bennett a pretty penny, but Stanley got his man. Every continent chuckled over his famed greeting. Said Stanley: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone...
...time he was 58. Stanley had had enough: he retired to the English countryside, was knighted. Once he met "Grand Old Man" Gladstone, who characteristically held forth on the absurd nomenclature visited by explorers on their discoveries. Two that riled him were the Gordon Bennett and Mackinnon-Mountains. "Who called them by those absurd names?" he boomed. Stanley had to admit that...
...Mallinckrodt MB9Chemistry 16 Mallinckrodt MB8Chemistry 17b Mallinckrodt MB9Chinese 11 Boylston 16Economics 7c Sever 36Economics 41a Sever 23Education A Sever 6Engin. Sciences 12 Pierce 202English 1 Emerson 311English 51 Emerson 211English 79 Fogg Large Rm.Fine Arts 1f Robinson HallFrench 21 Sever 11Geography 4 Geol. Mus. 51BGeology 7 Sever 2German 1aMr. Bennett, Sec. 1 Sever 1German 2Mr. Holske, Sec 1 Sever 5Government 19 Harvard 6History 1Mr. Coddington, Sec. 12, 28Conf. Group 1 New Lect. HallMr. Cram, Sec. 2, 21Conf. Group II New Lect. HallMr. Dean, Sec. 3, 14Conf. Group III New Lect. HallMr. Edson, Sec. 22, 24Conf. Group IV New Lect. HallMr...