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Seldom is the U. S. religious scene without a drive or campaign of some sort. Currently prelates and publicists of the Roman Catholic Church are engaged in telling the faithful how gravely they are endangered by Communism. An Episcopal group led by Bishop Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio is attempting to deepen the spiritual life of the Church through a Forward Movement. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is trying to do like wise and to liquidate a $385,000 mission ary debt through a Bishop's Crusade, to which the most notable response to date has come from...
HARVARD NAVY Knapp, l.e. r.e., Baughman Barkin, l.t. r.t., Scales Mellen, l.g. r.g., Williams Hedblom, c. c., Andrews Zimman, r.g. l.g., Minvielle Schmidt, r.t. l.t., Fleps Hobson, r.e. l.e., Sooy Burnett, q.b. q.b., Watson Jerome, r.h.b. l.h.b., Graves Prouty, l.h.b. r.h.b., Anderson Foley, f.b. f.b., Holovak...
...Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests, all in one afternoon; Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac to block Santiago harbor in 1898; Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, whose ill-fated Arctic expedition in 1881 waged against no enemy but Nature, ended in the death of all but six of his 24 men (TIME. April...
Born in St. James Parish, La. in 1838, Henry Hobson Richardson went to Harvard when his stuttering kept him from a West Point appointment. He was the second famed U. S. architect to study his profession in Paris.* Once back in his native country his success as an architect was rapid. Rebelling against the General Grant era of architecture, he won competitions right & left while his prize-winning designs brought in other commissions. One of his least successful, most "Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after...
Romantically slim and handsome in his youth, Henry Hobson Richardson grew into a great bearded barrel of a man (see cut p. 29), proud of his wife and six children, his combined home and office, his vast capacity for champagne and the bright yellow vests he wore with evening clothes. Though he built several churches he was by no means a religious man. In fact at dinner one evening his good friend Phillips Brooks, rector of Boston's Trinity, was abashed to learn that Architect Richardson had never read the Bible. Architect Richardson promised to do so. started...