Word: olivet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olivet. Joseph H. Brewer Jr., 35, made his debut as an educator last fortnight when he became president of Olivet College (enrollment: 200) in Olivet, Mich (pop. 566). Last week he made his first presidential bow with a Founder's Day speech celebrating Olivet's 90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president of Olivet College (Mich.) for two years. Before that he was for eleven years president of the University of Washington, where it is still said that his wife forbade him to smoke cigarets...
...McMichael '33, Leon Manheimer '36, Mark Mazel '35, J. K. Mitchell, Jr. '34, V. R. Montanari '33, W. A. Munroe '33, A. Nichols, Jr. '34, J. L. Noyes '34, J. A. Olivet '33, Vincent Palmer '35, E. C. Pugh '33, R. R. Reed, Jr. '34, W. E. Richardson '35, M. P. Richmond '34, W. P. Rockwell '35, Sumner Rodman '36, L. Rosen, H. O. Sebring, Jr. 3L, Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. '32, H. B. Shepard, 2d '34, W. S. Sims, Jr. '33, A. T. Smith, Jr. 2L, Ben Sommers '34, W. Spencer '34, Emil Steck, W. H. Stevsky...
...heard the boy's story: He had sold papers on Chicago's South Side, bell-hopped at the Chicago Beach Hotel, sung in the Olivet Baptist Church choir. Mrs, Blackstone invited her butler's boy to lunch with her. There arose an argument as to whether he should go to the front door or around by the back as he had done the countless times he had gone to see his father. His mother telephoned the housekeeper. He used the front...
Fifth largest religious group in the U. S. are the Negro Baptists. Four years ago their adult membership was 2,914,482.* Largest Protestant church in the world is Chicago's Olivet Baptist church, membership 12,000. Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, urbane pastor of Olivet, has been president of the Negroes' National Baptist convention for eight years. Last week he called the convention to order in Chicago. More than 50,000 delegates were in the city. They thronged through the streets. They filled the Coliseum. They conducted a "grand musicale" (1,000 choristers), street parades, an athletic carnival...