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...must seek everywhere for a balance in our teaching and our work. . . . Often we defeat ourselves not by saying a thing, but by saying it too much! Ere long we create a feverish audience that is utterly wearied of the sounding of one string upon the harp of God! . . ." At this plea for moderation, the Methodist delegates laughed and applauded. They also applauded a resounding denunciation of "the forces of inebriety" and a reference to the projected reunion of North- ern, Southern and Protestant Methodist churches (TIME, Aug. 26). This the Columbus Conference made its first order of business. Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of Columbus | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...will be fortunate indeed for those who attend Harvard in the next few years if Professor Kittredge can be induced from time to time to talk. Most of his students have feared his harp tongue and quick impatience. But they have respected his great learnings and gloried in his eccentricities and mannerisms. More salt of the Kittredge kind in colleg lecture halls would be a boon to American education. --New York Herald-Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S KITTREDGE | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Varsity foils, Captain Philip Lilienthal, William Gerber, Wallace Cox, and Richard Morgan will represent the Crimson; Edwin Davis, Albert Weiner, Richard Ford, and Edward Miller are entered in the epee; while Howard Reynolds, Edwin Skinner, Richard Morgan, and Elmer Harp will compete in the sabre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Among The Minors | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...just show me any body that is entirely perfect and I will show you, an Angel floating in the stratusphere, with a golden harp, and a pair of silver wings and an old fashioned night shirt. JOHN V. CAFFREY Denver, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...Frederick, Mo. Reno S. Harp, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, recovering from pneumonia, felt better when he was able to announce that President Roosevelt had signed an application to become a Knight of Pythias. The Pythians are trying to get Home Owners Loan Corp. or RFC to aid them in refinancing mortgages on their lodges throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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