Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Induction. A block east of the dun-colored house provided for the University of Chicago's president (in the barn of which Mrs. Hutchins will sculp and not keep an automobile), facing the broad Midway across the street from John D. Rockefeller's $1,500,000 chapel, stands Ida Noyes Hall, the women's centre, given by the late La Verne Noyes ("Dealer in People," inventor of the aeromotor) in memory of his wife. Here the induction procession formed, young President Hutchins preceded by the trustees and by five-score other college presidents, including his father, and by the faculty...
Said he: "We ask from you courage and wisdom, united with enthusiasm for scholarship. We ask for zeal in the search for truth. . . . We ask for inspiration of our young men and young women. . . . for broad sympathy, high perspective on the values of human life, and helpfulness in the problems of our civilization...
Manhattan. Under a broad charter granted in 1799, Manhattan Co., which began as a water-supplying concern, has long engaged in banking through its unit, Bank of the Manhattan Co. Last week stockholders voted to change Bank of the Manhattan Co. to Bank of Manhattan Trust Co., and to increase the authorized capital from $22,250,000 to $40,000,000. Manhattan Co. will use its increased capital to enter the group banking field. Some believe, some hope that the laws against branch banking may be repealed, allowing holding companies to become great multi-branched banking systems...
...Diocese of Southern Ohio is considered "broad." Broad was its recently-resigned Bishop Boyd Vincent; broad its Bishop-Coadjutor, now full Bishop Theodore Irving Reese. But more than broad, altogether too latitudinarian for most Episcopal tastes, is Bishop Paul Jones, "the bishop without a diocese," called last fortnight to Southern Ohio to carry on during Bishop Reese's illness (TIME, Nov.11). A pacifist, Bishop Jones is looked on by broad churchmen as Liberals eye a Red. Last week broad and high churchmen heaved sighs of relief when the diocesan convention of Southern Ohio elected Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean...
...Dean Robbins. Though he was both too broad and too independent for the liking of his erstwhile superior, high-church Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, he went last spring from his resigned deanship to teach in Manhattan's orthodox General Theological Seminary, principal training school of the Episcopal Church (TIME...