Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mount Holyoke 23 colleges and universities were represented with an attendance of 600. This included delegations of foreign students. The Radcliffe assembly was initiated through Harvard last May with the cooperation of Sir Herbert Ames, Treasurer of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1926, Professor W. Y. Elliott, and Professor C. J. Friedrich...
Important among proponents of the union is stalwart, gracious Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, 62, of Manhattan, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, potent religious statesman and author, sire of pious offspring,* famed among a fond younger generation as "Weeping Bob" for his emotional sermons. Dr. Speer studied for the ministry, was never ordained, but was made a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in 1910. Thus he is still a layman. But at the conference he personified the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., by far the largest denomination present (estimated membership...