Word: hume
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the creaky main corridor of the old red-brick building of the Army Medical Library in Washington last week strode the librarian, Major Edgar Erskine Hume, a proud and happy man. In his hand he carried a green clothbound book fresh from the Government Printing Office. Nodding happily to library workers, doctors and military men whom he passed, Major Hume, a medium-tall Kentuckian, pushed through the swinging shutter of his office door, put hat and coat in a wardrobe whose dried panels rattled, sat down at the solid oak desk which all preceding librarians of the greatest medical...
...Advocate announced yesterday the election to its Literary Board of the following four men: Henry P. Coolidge '37, of Boston; Hume Dow '38, of New York City; James C. Higgins, Jr. '38, of Winthrop; and Alvah W. Sulloway '38, of Concord, New Hampshire...
...among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps up to date by such studies as the one he lately made of Harlem's Father Divine (TIME, March 16). Of Roman Catholicism students may learn by attending lectures by priests outside-a concession which avoids raising the question of whether...
...small, dusky "Father" Divine, born George Baker somewhere in the South, as an amiable cultist who does genuinely useful welfare work with large sums of money whose source remains as obscure as the biography of Father Divine himself. In the interest of religious history, smallish, baldish Dr. Robert Ernest Hume, professor of the History of Religions at Union Theological Seminary, set out one Sunday last month to get the Divine record straight. The resulting interview was printed fortnight ago in The Spoken Word, Divine newsorgan. Of more interest to psychologists than theological historians, the Divine revelations rolled forth...
Professor Hume: Father, I came both to seek and to give information...