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Ordained a minister in the old Congregational Church of Salem, Conn, was Brewster Bingham, fifth son of onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, grandson of Hiram Bingham (1831-1908), missionary to Micronesia in the South Pacific, great-grandson of Hiram Bingham (1789-1869), missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Rev. Brewster Bingham, who during his Yale years startled New Haven housewives by begging food as religious discipline, jolted the Salem Ecclesiastical Council by declaring: "We could learn much from Karl Marx...
Coming down to later times, nearly all of the more important groups of primitive people are represented, including the Eskimo, the American Indian, and the people of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Malay Archipelago, Asia, and Africa...
Students have been received at Wesley College from all the states and territories excepting Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and New Mexico. They have been received from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Mexico, Chili, Turkey, India, Siam, China, Japan, South Africa, Micronesia, and Sandwich Islands. The number of students registered the present collegiate year is five hundred and one. Over eighteen hundred have registered since the college opened. [Wesley Courant...