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...seven years a professional ball player, 34 years an evangelist, 27 years a Presbyterian minister, was nervous last week as he exhorted impromptu in Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, Tabernacle pastor, explained the nervousness as due to Dr. Sunday's "eating nothing of consequence but toast...
Among the 2,300 men and women in the U. S. who run private secondary schools, unique is the position of Elliott Speer, 32, Princeton 1920; son of famed Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer. He not only conducts the largest private secondary institution in the land but as President of Northfield Schools (enrollment: 1,230) he heads two schools-Mount Hermon School for boys and Northfield Seminary for girls. These seats of learning face each other across five miles of wooded hills, separated by the Connecticut river near Northfield, one mile from the northern boundary of Massachusetts...
Fifty years ago these schools were founded by Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody as a place where disadvantaged boys and girls might receive a preparatory education at small cost. As the institution has progressed and expanded it has lost much of its early religious flavor. It now likes to be known as a purely educational institution, being at pains to make clear that the celebrated annual Northfield Religious Conferences are merely held on the school grounds during vacations, are not part of the school year. Northfield being needy and this its semicentennial year, there is now in progress a drive...
Married. Constance Speer, of Manhattan, daughter of Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer, sister of President Elliott Speer of the Northfield Schools (see p. 26); and Dr. Robert F. Barbour of Edinburgh, Scotland; in Lakeville, Conn...
Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, whom Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday called "a dirty foreigner," because of his promise to give $100 to the anti-Prohibition work of the Crusaders (TIME, Oct. 27), doubled his subscription, fired back at Sunday before a Crusader luncheon at Cleveland: "I have lived here 30 years as a citizen of the United States. . . . Whatever career I have had has been here. ... I have yet to see the inside of a jail. Yet this gentleman [Evangelist Sunday] says that ... all of foreign blood are 'foreigners and dirty crooks'. ... I am disgusted...