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...took down copious messages. After 15 minutes D. Scoville Wishard said: "Some will want to share what God said." There were many who did, all beginning "it came to me. . . ." Said Jonkheer van Lennep: "God has told me he is blessing this house party." Said Evershed Thompson of the Edinburgh Stock Exchange: "Jesus is here...
...sociology. For the solution of social problems he labored to find a calculus as Leibnitz and Newton had found one to solve mathematical problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution of Sex, Biology, Life. His ablest U. S. disciple is Critic Lewis Mumford...
...years Elliott Speer has been president of the corporators & trustees of the Northfield Schools which Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody founded 50 years ago for worthy youngsters who lacked advantages. Last year he finished raising $2,750,000 for the Northfield Schools, took his wife and three children off to Edinburgh, where he is now taking his second degree. When he returns to become Mount Hermon's principal he may sit on his front lawn, look across the Connecticut River at Northfield Seminary for girls, and like "Doc" Cutler reflect: "If the boys want to get over there, they...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: In a speech to promote funds for Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Sir James Matthew Barrie told of a hospital which he conducted near Verdun during the War for wounded French children: ". . . The eldest was not more than ten, and many of them were almost babes. On the very first night when the children were asleep part, of the ceiling fell. A nurse ran into the room wondering why she had not heard the children screaming and thinking it was a bomb. When she opened the door she found those eight little...
Assorted as any Early Christian group, gathered for mutual aid and prayer, was Great Britain's delegation to Geneva. Present was bespectacled little Founder Buchman who spends most of his time in England. From Edinburgh came Mrs. Alexander Whyte, relict of the later moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland and principal of New College. Accompanying her was James Watt, onetime miner, hot Communist who used to agitate among Fifeshiremen while living on the Dole. Came also Commander Sir Walter George Windham who lists himself in Who's Who as "founder of the Aeroplane Club, 1908; took part in early...