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Miscellaneous. In various corners ot the U. S. miscellaneous gatherings occurred. On Star Island, off New Hampshire, the Unitarian Young People's Religious Union met, talked, prayed. In Chautauqua, N. Y., the educational conference of the Young Men's Christian Association. In Chicago, the world service commission of the Methodist Church. Elsewhere, others...
...votes. Anti-Smith convention delegates were likewise elected. And, in the Fourth Congressional District, U. S. Representative William J. Sears lost out to Tradition as embodied in the 43-year-old daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, "The Little Commoner." A War nurse, Chautauqua lecturer, energetic personality, Mrs. Owen laid stress upon her own abilities rather than her father's fame...
SHAILER MATHEWS, 64, Chicago; Dean, University of Chicago Divinity School; director, religious work of Chautauqua Institution...
...plays opened in Manhattan last week. This is the dull season, when actors appear in Chautauqua, visit friends at the seashore, toil in stock companies, or sail for Europe. But the week was not without theatrical news of interest...
...wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree to which he is conscious and confident of sound normality among the masses from...