Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith told friends he had not thus greeted Governor Roosevelt. Mr. Smith addresses as "potatoes" such old intimates as William Kenny, Daniel Mooiiey, George Van Namee, has done so for years. A friendly phrase, he uses it as an Englishman does "old bean." Possible derivation: In Manhattan's lower East Side resides many a Murphy; white potatoes are sometimes referred to as "mur-phys." Al Smith first called Murphys and then other Irish friends "potatoes." ' Pronounced...
What should a Christian think of a Brahmin? Have Christian foreign missions finished their work? Has their value in the Far East declined? Should they go on? Questions like these were interesting to laymen of seven U. S. Protestant denominations* whose 57,000-odd churches and ten million-odd members spent nearly $15,000,000 in 1931 on foreign missions...
...brown and yellow men. "Western Christianity ... is less a religion of fear and more a religion of beneficence." With the rise of a "basic world-culture," arises the question, "Why the missionary need leave his home to convey his message?" . . . Resurging nationalism is a danger to missionizing in the East. Christianity should not be identified with Western life but presented in its "universal capacity." Nor should Christianity attack the non-Christian systems of religion; it should understand them, associate itself with their "kindred elements." Christianity's chief argument is not with Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism but with "materialism, secularism...
...gathering of distinguished men from all over the East witnessed the presentation of a portrait of William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts, to the Faculty Club of the Business School last Monday evening. The picture, the gift of several intimate friends of the Bishop, was accepted for the University by President Lowell, who gave a short talk about Bishop Lawrence and his great interest in the University and the Business School in particular...
...Republican leaders to the various colleges. Stimson is at Yale, Doak may come to Harvard later this month, Wilbur is at Princeton and Smith, Snell will appear at Amherst, and Mitchell is slated to talk at Columbia. Amherst, who is Advisory Chairman of the College Division of the east, has been arranging these schedules...