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Helen L. Walker Scholarship: James B. Blodgett, 3M, of Detroit, Mich., A.B. Oberlin...
...social-minded churchman who was born 44 years ago in South Dakota, Dwight Bradley studied at Oberlin College and the Pacific School of Religion. After holding four pastorates scattered from California to Ohio he went to Boston, became president of the city's Federation of Churches, rescued it from doldrums. At Union Church he will try much the same thing. Though it has had such able pastors as Rev. Dr. Ernest Graham Guthrie (now of Chicago) and the late Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Union Church has but 389 enrolled members. Surrounded by lodging houses, it draws polyglot congregations...
...issue of Aug. 20 I notice the face of Lucien Warner of corset fame?a colleague of mine on the Oberlin College Trustee Board. His father was a trustee before him and in 1882 he offered the College $75,000 for a music hall. A member of the faculty with a conscience of abnormal development questioned whether it was ethical to accept such a donation from a man whose money "had been squeezed out of the girls." However the College took the gift and built what is now known on the campus as Warner Hall...
...Oberlin, Ohio, at a meeting of the General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches, devout Statistician Roger Ward Babson presented results of his four-year study of church attendance. In 1,000 Congregational churches, said he, pews were 70% vacant. Only 42% of the communicants supported their churches by attendance or otherwise. Attendance varies inversely with the size of communities, the urban Eastern States averaging the lowest (36%) and the rural Southeastern States the highest...
Congressman Eddie Crump, "the Red Snapper of Tennessee." who "rode into town at the age of 18 on a bull calf." and remained to become the city's benevolent despot, absolutely controls all city and county offices. Negro Boss is big Bob Church, Oberlin and Harvard-educated with a college-graduate daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma...