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Raided today by the Harvard Watch and Ward Society was the Adams House gambling hell operated by Harry Newman and Robert H. Orchard, both Sophomores...
Investigators found that Orchard and Newman had revised the works of the clock which extends into their room, so that it can be made to work like a roulette wheel from the weight of the 50-lb, drops...
...Protestant was angular, deep-voiced, intense Dr. Richard Roberts. Presbyterian theologian and onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the sponsors of Yale's University Christian Conference had had to obtain the permission of Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe of Hartford (in whose diocese New Haven lies), and Arthur Cardinal Kinsley of London, Father Orchard's superior...
...England's great preachers, William Orchard was trained as a Presbyterian but attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had his doubts about the Resurrection, became increasingly Catholic. He instituted Mass, the Reserved Sacrament, the Benediction, bells, candles and incense in his Nonconformist church. When a well-fed parishioner demanded to know why, in Mass, he had been asked to worship "a bit of bread," Dr. Orchard snapped: "Well, sir, we happen...
...Father Orchard and Presbyterian Roberts (who was born in Wales) became friends in England 35 years ago. Last Sunday each knew well the other's mind when they mounted the platform of Yale's Sprague Hall. Their subjects for the first lecture-the Existence of God for Father Orchard, the Nature of God for Dr. Roberts-were typical of the series. The Yale Christian Conference is neither a debate nor a revival, but a sober discussion for a mature audience. Its recent course has been cheering to churchmen searchingfor signs of a U. S. religious revival...