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Died. Dr. Shailer Mathews, 78, liberal theologian, dean emeritus of the University of Chicago Divinity School; in Chicago. Dean from 1908 to 1933, he was a lifetime fighter against religious obscurantism, an influential champion of the church's practical concern with social problems. He was never ordained, explained he preferred the greater freedom of action and speech allowed a layman...
...editor of the Christian Science Monitor retired to denounce Mary Baker Glover Eddy and all her works, the U.S. would be no more surprised than England was last week when the editor emeritus of the Empire's No. 1 religious weekly told what he really thinks of the church in Britain...
When the public visits the Observatory this year during the annual series of "Open Nights," it will be able to peer at the heavens through a telescope with a nine inch aperture recently given by Dr. James R. Jewett, professor of Arabic, emeritus...
...biweekly oration through a series of shrill bursts from a dozen alarm clocks scattered strategically throughout New Lecture Hall, and set off at carefully-planned intervals during the hour? But even should these achievements be equalled, Vag reflected with mixed pleasure and regret, no one but the taskmaster-emeritus of History 1 could inspire, and graciously accept, the gift of a highly-polished apple which one ardent admirer had brought up to the rostrum at the climax of a lecture on the feudal system...
...British were plainly no longer interested in their onetime King. This emeritus royalty was still a national embarrassment, but a fainter one. The British Embassy carefully pointed out that the Embassy dinner for the Windsors would be "medium-sized and private." The White House took this cue: the Duke and Duchess were invited only to a lunch with the President-almost the minimum courtesy permissible by diplomatic protocol. When the death of the President's brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt (see p. 17), made it necessary to cancel even this courtesy, a Presidential handshake was substituted. Their only...