Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library waterproofed. The recent excitement in connection with the answers of various prominent men to the question, " What books would you like to have with you on a desert island?" has begun to quiet down. The chief impression left is one of bulk. Everything from the Encyclopedia to the Presbyterian Hymnal, the complete works of Shakespeare, and the dictionary have been proposed. Will Rogers favors the telephone directory...
...Hans Zinsser of New York, professor of bacteriology at Columbia University and bacteriologist of the Presbyterian Hospital, is to join the staff next autumn as professor of bacteriology and immunology. He served with the Red Cross expedition to Serbia in 1915 and during the war was a colonel in the Medical Corps, A. E. F. The other new appointment is that of Dr. Francis Howard Lahey of Boston as professor of clinical surgery...
...collection was made for the Museum by George Schwab, who has been a Presbyterian missionary in West Africa since 1905, and is now superintendent of the American Presbyterian Mission Schools in the Cameroons. Mr. Schwab has been for many years greatly interested in the scientific study of the life and customs of the native tribes, and this year, while on leave of absence from his missionary work, he is the holder of the Hemenway Fellowship for anthropological study...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick, professor of Homiletics at Union Theological Seminary, and Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City, will speak to the Freshman class in smith Halls Common Room at seven o'clock Monday evening, December 11, Dr. Fosdick is the author of numerous books on various aspects of religion...
Sunday, February 11.--The Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D., Minister of the Madison. Ave. Presbyterian Church, New York City...