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...Among the 900 "commissioners" to the Assembly was one who had stayed away from its last meeting in Columbus four years ago, because of the "controversy and acrimony" he knew would arise over the schism led by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. This absentee was Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, moderate Presbyterian, sonorous orator, pastor of Old First Church in Newark, N. J. By last week the acrimony had subsided, Dr. Machen had died, his rebel church was rent by theological squabbles over millennialism,* and Dr. Foulkes turned up in Columbus as a commissioner. The Assembly was marked by businesslike...
...first place, you state that "of the 19 U. S. colleges which maintain crews, 18 have Washington-trained oarsmen on their coaching staffs." Syracuse, Princeton, M. I. T. and the U. S. Naval Academy all have other than Washington-trained coaching staffs. Likewise to call the late Hiram B. Connibear a "grandfather" of U. S. crew racing is a little unfair to those men who promoted and took part in intercollegiate rowing long before Mr. Connibear went to Washington. That crew does owe much to Mr. Connibear and to the University of Washington in developing the "arm and leg" stroke...
...crew saga of University of Washington, in which Harvard began a new chapter last week, started when famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie went to Washington as football coach in 1908. As trainer and rubber Coach Dobie had a onetime bicycle-racer and Chicago White Sox baseball trainer named Hiram B. Connibear. Washington had just decided to have an eight-oared crew, handed the job of coaching it to Trainer Connibear, who had not only never seen a college crew before but never even rowed a boat. It was Coach Connibear who made Washington the producer of almost...
...faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband bought the school in 1865 and who was its president until she resigned in 1909, aged 83. By week's end far-flung meetings of Mills alumnae, who include Mrs. Hiram Johnson and Mrs. William Edgar Borah, had pledged $252,000 to Mills's endowment drive, whose honorary chairman is Aurelia Reinhardt's friend Herbert Hoover...
...yield to no man in adherence to Union Labor," cried California's venerable Hiram Johnson. "But I am opposed to the Sit-Down strike...