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Criticism of U. S. teachers came last week from Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, addressing the annual convocation of summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have always reproduced their own species, but never had any part in the evolution of other living creatures. . . . There are brachiopod teachers who transmit their own minds but do not stimulate students to advance human knowledge...
...agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu (1824-1832) for a desk. His messages of protest, smuggled out of the tomb and carried overseas, brought repudiation of Captain Paulet by the British Government and his withdrawal from the Islands...
Just when Tammany Hall was bracing itself for a New York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
...Coffin's Warning. Addressing this year's 64 graduates of Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Union's eloquent, outstanding president, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, declared that Fundamentalists and Modernists had best lay their differences entirely aside and join in repelling "the humanist movement, which makes God simply a name for the ethical idea evolved by mankind and attempts to draw its moral standards from a study of human behavior. . . . Both sides must recognize a serious menace to vital Christian faith in the humanist movement. The urgent task for Christian scholars is to state the conception...