Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee in charge of the Greater Boston conference is composed of Claude shotts, massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dorothy Bourne, Boston University; Margaret Hummull, Secretary for Presbyterian Women in Boston, Abraham Wirin, Secretary of the Fellowship of Youth and Peace, and F.V. Field '27, of Harvard. The Harvard committee appointed by the Student Council, consists of F.V. Field '27, H. W. Foote '27, and L. H. Duggan '27. This committee will announce a list of delegates from the University later in the week...
...sisters in Nebraska. The bulk of his estate (about $100,000) he left to the county for the erection of a school gymnasium and playground. The town was shocked. The Negro's body was carried to the Court House and a public funeral was held. Three clergymen-Presbyterian, Methodist, Roman Catholic -spoke over his body...
...Said the Presbyterian before he began to weep: "He was the best educated man, the most progressive business man and the ideal Christian of our community...
...Entrants to New York University packed a Presbyterian Church to hear words from Elbert H. Gary, steel magnate and famed author of rules for a successful life. Business success was the burden of his message. Be agreeable, said he, approachable, popularize yourself and your business. "Adopt and apply the standards of propriety. . . . Honesty is best. . . . Abraham Lincoln. . . . Marshall Field. . . . J. Pierpont Morgan. . . . The average man likes to hear himself talk too much. It is well to let the other man talk half of the time...
Just returned from the Universal Conference on Life and Work at Stockholm, the Rev. Henry C. Swearingen last week called to order the "Special Commission of Fifteen" of the Presbyterian Church. The Commissioners gathered in a private room in the Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City. The fourteen present were...