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...preliminary plans call for a tournament to be held annually during the Easter vacation. A cup has been offered by two Princeton graduates, W. Van D. Belden and L. W., Stephens, past members of Princeton chess teams. The cup will be a challenge trophy and will remain in competition until one team wins it five years in succession...
...Easter. The Roman Catholic, Greek, English and .some other churches have joined in the movement to reform the calendar insofar as fixing a specific date for Easter is concerned. (Easter is now fixed in relation to the phases of the moon. This arrangement was made at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A. D. in order to give persons making Easter pilgrimages a waxing moon on their journey and a waning moon on their trip back home).-M. B. Cotsworth, Director of the International Fixed Calendar League...
Owing to the autiquity of its building, the St. Paul's congregation built a brick church on Bow Street which was first used at Easter in 1923. The old church was still used for the daily services and the new one for Sunday rituals until last spring, when it was abandoned...
...dances, it is said, were never supported by the older parishioners. When, last Easter, A. Van Home Stuyvesant went to inspect the grave of his ancestor, Peter Stuyvesant (TIME, June 23), he and his family departed without leaving their individual checks for $900 at the Church. The eurythmic ritual also brought upon Dr. Guthrie the Episcopal admonition of Bishop William T. Manning. "In disregard of my counsel . . . you used eurythmic or other dancing in said church. . . . Therefore I hereby notify you that I decline to visit the congregation and parish of St. Mark's (TIME, Apr. 7). Bishop Manning...
...later learned that Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish sent an Easter donation, but an unusually small one; that all of Dr. Guthrie's assistants have resigned; that all contributions have fallen off. It was finally announced that the dances would not be held next year. Dr. Guthrie's resignation was momentarily expected...