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...even as low as 117 out of 200-scores that any one of the competitors would have scorned at his own club on a still day. In the preliminary handicap J. H. R. Kretschman, a Canadian, won with 195 after shooting off a tie with a Philadelphian and a gunner from New Haven. Next day, however, Kretschman was not important. Lanky Stevenson M. Crothers from Chestnut Hill, Pa., hung his coat on a nail, put on an old sweater and a white eyeshade, raised his single-barrelled, closed-bore Daley gun and giving a gruff bark that meant "Pull!" each...
George Payne, the Philadelphian who had finished second in the preliminary match, was runner-up to Squire Crothers with 190 birds. Jimmy Bonner, a stocky young man from Manhattan, won the doubles championship (two shots at two birds in the air at once) with...
...Philadelphian Society, Princeton University's 105-year-old campus religious organization, conducts religious services and courses of study, engages in charity and mission work, offers membership and the opportunity for good deeds to any man on the campus. Privately it does admirable, devout things in a quiet, effective way. Publicly it has achieved quite a different reputation. Several years ago the Philadelphian Society got itself mixed up with the lurid cult of Buchmanism, which encourages its adherents, of both sexes, to achieve spiritual relief by blurting out their sex histories at weekend "house parties" (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). This...
...while some have looked on the Philadelphian Society with horror, some with amusement, some with complete apathy, almost every Princetonian has regarded it as weak. This judgment was echoed last week by the society itself. President Charles Stevens announced that next year it will lead only a nominal life, while a federation of studentry and faculty carries on its charitarian and other endeavors. Many Princetonians discerned behind this movement the energetic figure of Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of the University Chapel, who arrived at Princeton two years ago from the Second Church (Congregationalist) of Holyoke, Mass., determined that Princeton...
...part of the majority of men. Fellowship in the more personal and intimate phases of religious experience should be kept for private, congenial groups, where sincerity can be protected from publicity. . . . Many men in college today are ready to offer their help, but hesitate to do so through the Philadelphian Society because of the inherited prejudice against setting one's self apart...