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...above facts explain," President McConaughy, a tolerant Congregationalist at the head of a tolerant Methodist college, went on to elaborate, "why it is difficult for Wesleyan to place her graduates of the Jewish race in medical schools. It should be apparent that in selecting its freshmen each medical school will feel some degree of responsibility for the graduates of the institution with which it is associated, and it therefore is impelled to accept the promising applicants within its own borders. It is now quite generally admitted that, after that selection has been made, very little room is left for Jewish...
...Bobby" Edwards, son of devout Congregationalist parents, was a clerk with ambitions to be a minister. He became intimate with his next-door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly...
That was precisely what Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley of Newton, Mass, was making ready to do last week. Four years ago he went to Boston's smart, pleasant suburb to be pastor of. First Church, Congregationalist, which in 265 years has had only twelve pastors. First Church has 1,013 well-fed worshippers. Next month Dr. Bradley is leaving it to take charge of Union Church in Boston's down-at-heel South End, on the wrong side of the New York, New Haven & Hartford tracks...
...Episcopalian family of President Roosevelt. After Elliott Roosevelt received his Nevada divorce last year, he could find no Episcopal clergyman who would defy the canons of his church and marry the President's son to Ruth Googins; therefore the service had to be performed by a retired Congregationalist minister (TIME, July 31). The second White House divorce and possible remarriage outside the church is scheduled for late this month when Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall completes her six-week residence in Nevada (TIME, June...
...theological and administrative changes advocated in Re-Thinking Missions (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932). To keep alive the ideas born of that inquiry 100-odd laymen and ministers are currently laboring under the name of the "Modern Missions Movement." Most active worker is Dr. Orville Anderson Petty, 60, Congregationalist minister, one-time president of Arnold College in New Haven, onetime Army chaplain (with citations and decorations), onetime president of the New Haven Council of Churches. Dr. Petty did spadework for the Laymen's Inquiry as a "FactFinder" in India. Says he: "An increasing number of world-minded Christians desire...