Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preach damnation!" Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin was emphatic. He was quoting "General" William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army: "The best preaching is damnation with the Cross in the midst of it." Dr. Coffin was addressing the students of Union Theological Seminary at the opening of the present school year. Regarded by Fundamentalists as their friendly but most effective enemy, Dr. Coffin is proud to make the historic phrases of an ageless Christianity his own. The Cross has always been in the midst of his preaching. High in his Manhattan Church suspended has been an object rarely found in evangelical...
...tree, a gift of the late J. T. Wheelwright '76, founder of the Lampoon, was planted with great ceremony on the Jester's fiftieth anniversary about two years ago. Although carefully watched and watered by Bob Lampoon, it had not burgeoned up to expectation in the Gold Coast atmosphere, and there have been rumors that it was to be removed...
...Monument. Japanese hearkened with approval last week as the great Viscount Shibusawa, "the Morgan of Japan," founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank) of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Line), financier, industrialist, philanthropist, first "businessman" ever to be created a Japanese peer, announced at Tokyo that he will unveil the Harris Monument in the presence of U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh...
Engaged. John Trumbull Marshall, descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens; also of Jonathan Trumbull, Colonial Governor of Connecticut; to Catharine Van Dyke Bull, descendant of Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, founder of New Utrecht...
...Mary Bethune, negress, founder of the Bethune Cookman College, which has four hundred colored students, ands conditions of so sanguine an aspect that she predicts, "Christian education will wipe out practically all race difficulties in the South." Although a Meneken might object to the qualification of the education, all will agree that such a forecast is most encouraging. The continued payment of the running expenses of this unendowed college, which amount to about $80,000 annually also shows that there is more than thought in the new attitude...