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...merger was, almost miraculously, realized. In Seattle the Congregational and Christian Churches met in joint convention, consummated a long-planned union. Representing 6,670 congregations and 3,000,000 church constituents, the new church will be called "Congregational and Christian." It will have two moderators. Rev. Dr. Carl Safford Patton, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, was elected by the Congregationalists to succeed Rev. Dr. Fred B. Smith. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, syndicated advice-giver, was nominated but had his name withdrawn. Christian President, too ill to attend the Convention, is Dr. Frank George Coffin...
Score--Yale '34. 4; Harvard '34, 2. Goals--Brines, Levan, Lessig, Ed Jones, Payne 2. Substitutes--Brown, Seligman, Hammond, Patton, Pearcy, Earle, Vernon, Robbins and Smith; Harvard, Fields, Hosapple, Wilbur, Carroll, Topalian, Reed, Townsend and Johns. Referee--Reed. Time--Two 30m. periods...
Married. Byron Patton Harrison Jr., son of Senator "Pat" Harrison of Mississippi; and Mary Louise Dorroh of University, Miss.; in Washington...
Princeton's active Grand Old Man is Professor Emeritus Henry Van Dyke, author, poet, preacher, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg. He it is who is brought out to show to visiting notables. But Princeton sentiment also embraces the aged Francis Landey Patton, President from 1888 to 1902. Upon his resignation, he took up the Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They...
Resigned. Dr. Ozora Stearns Davis, 62, of Chicago. Congregational Minister; as president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...