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...crucifer and four churchmen in hot black cassocks carrying Christian flags, a parade formed one evening last week near the grave of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody on Round Top near East Northfield, Mass. Missionaries, laymen, church delegations, Bible students, nationals in native costume and two Salvation Army bands-2,000 people in all-marched down to the small New England town. They carried placards: BUILD FRIENDSHIP, NOT BATTLESHIPS-ADMIT JAPANESE ON THE QUOTA BASIS - RELIGION RENOUNCES...
Gardner Middlebrook, of Northfield, Vermont, and a graduate of Andover, has been elected Freshman manager of the Glee Club. He will become assistant manager next year and full manager in his Junior year...
Mount Hermon. "Who killed Elliott Speer?" was just as baffling a question last week as it was on the evening when a fatal volley of buckshot spattered through the study window of the headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys (TIME, Sept. 24). Police of Northfield, Mass., had scoured every foot of the campus. A local judge had held a secret, ten-day inquest, examined 63 witnesses, only to report that young Headmaster Speer had died by the hand of "a person unknown." Last week Mount Hermon's trustees got down to the business of picking...
Sixth child of a family of twelve, Thorstein Veblen was born on a Wisconsin farm to parents who had migrated from Norway. Brought up in a clannish Norwegian community, Veblen spoke no English until he went to Carleton College at Northfield, Minn. There he quickly picked up proficiency in English, became so nice in his choice of words that he finally decided there were no synonyms in the language. After graduating high from Carleton, Veblen taught for a year in a Norwegian-community school, then went East to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Yale, take...
Trustee Chairman Wilfred Washington Fry, president of N. W. Ayer & Sons, summoned his board to Northfield, appointed a trio of teachers to head the school temporarily...