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...from Avalon, his estate at Princeton, N. J., last week sallied Dr. Henry van Dyke, 77, Presbyterian, verbally to thrash Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 58, Methodist, for Dr. Wilson's insults to Dr. van Dyke's father, the late famed Dr. Henry Jackson van Dyke of Brooklyn. Dr. Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, had written a report, kept secret until dragged forth by the Senate Lobby Committee, on the Board's war against the "foes" of Prohibition before the 1928 presidential elections. Dr. van Dyke was perplexed to find himself...
...Elizabeth, a son, Franz Schubert, named for his father's favorite composer. Manager Dykstra's mother named him Addison while she was reading the Spectator Papers. Last week in Cincinnati he declared that he was a descendant of the semi-legendary Dutch boy who plugged a leaking dyke with his finger, explained: "Finger-in-dyke-hence the name Dykstra...
Yale will be represented by R. B. Fulton, R. G. Osterweis, P. W. Hoon, and H. G. Dyke. A second Eli team will meet Princeton Saturday night, at New Haven, in a debate upon the same subject...
...previously announced, the first debate between Yale and Harvard will take place on Saturday, when the Pan-American Arbitration Treaty will be the subject for argument. The Yale representatives will be, R. B. Fulton, R. G. Oster-weis, P. W. Hoon, and H. G. Dyke. The Harvard debaters have not yet been selected...
Princeton's active Grand Old Man is Professor Emeritus Henry Van Dyke, author, poet, preacher, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg. He it is who is brought out to show to visiting notables. But Princeton sentiment also embraces the aged Francis Landey Patton, President from 1888 to 1902. Upon his resignation, he took up the Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They...