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According to previous newspaper announcements, this was to be the funeral of a certain neighbor. The evangelist chanted no eulogy over the coffin. The dead man had committed every sin, he screamed. He was wicked, he had not been ready when the trump of Gabriel called him to judgment, and therefore he would go to eternal torment...
...slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover of the wind screaming through ice-ribbed pines he snapped the twanging wires. Three days later he climbed stiff and jolt-bruised from his living coffin, and stumbled into the forests of-Prussia? Russia? Poland...
Grischa was shot, having meticulously joined his own coffin, lustily dug his own grave, manfully marched to his death...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, will be the leading speaker. After A. R. Sweezy '29 and E. W. Sexton '29 have presented the viewpoint of the undergraduates who have no part in the work of the Phillips Brooks House, Dr. Coffin will analyze the general student attitude and suggest possible means of promoting further understanding...
...clock--Dr. H. S. Coffin will discuss briefly the main points of the afternoon meeting, and then will describe the place of such work as is done at Brooks House in a community. This address will be followed by general discussion...