Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Officers were elected: Calvin Coolidge, Honorary President; John Hays Hammond and John Barton Payne, First and Second Vice Presidents; George B. Christian, Jr., Secretary; Andrew J. Mellon, Treasurer...
...Montreal Mr. George burst into golf. A correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor saw him make three perfect shots-a long, straight drive, a magnificent approach and a superb and final putt. Moved by sheer admiration the correspondent approached...
Gertrude Atherton, novelist: " My book, Black Oxen, which revolves about the metamorphosis of an elderly woman into a frisky flapper through a rejuvenating glandular operation, was removed from the shelves of public libraries in Rochester, N. Y., by Mayor Van Zandt, at the request of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The reason given was: ' Unfit for the minds of young people...
...spirit or spiritual impulse might be abroad in the new countries. Australia terrified and fascinated him by turns-he got drawn into local politics and met the extraordinary Kangaroo, a plump, Semitic, would-be Messiah, who dreamed and plotted for an Australia as democratic and brotherly as the early Christian Church, bound together by the universal love of every man for his fellows. The mental struggle between Kangaroo and Somers was intense; in spite of Kangaroo's force Somers would not be converted. He, too, loved Australia, but not in Kankaroo's way-and when Kangaroo died after...
...discuss current topics but to discuss them intelligently under the leadership of men qualified to help them. Similar groups last year were most successful. The Phillips Brooks House has declared itself anxious to aid anyone interested in the formation of such groups among the Freshmen. Members of the University Christian Association and the Silver Bay Delegation will be present at the Phillips Brooks House to assist anyone in selecting a group...