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...Thornwell Jacobs, an ambitious young Princeton Theological Seminary graduate who had been a Presbyterian minister for a while, went to Atlanta, determined to resurrect Oglethorpe there. He gave some of his own money to start, talked a quarter million dollars out of civic-proud Atlantans, made 101 trips through the South to raise another quarter million. On the cornerstone of New Oglethorpe's first building, laid in 1915, was engraved the pious motto Manu Dei Resurrexit (By the Hand of God She Has Risen from the Dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oglethorpe Purse | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...improved highways, how to dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...those obscure citizens who believes the minority is often right, permit me to thank you for your clear, fair and newsworthy article on the William Jennings Bryan University and its first graduating class [TIME, June 25]. Mr. Bryan was an ordained elder in our Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and although he was hopelessly outvoted by a church which is fast slipping into Modernism and Apostasy, he was never afraid to inform the church of her danger, and in the face of ridicule and hostility, his superb moral courage showed that he feared God more than he feared man. The last cowardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...Grace Presbyterian Church San Francisco, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...Medical School's photographic laboratories. Leaving Yale, the well-to-do young Armenian built a model of the x-ray observation ap paratus and as soon as he saw that it worked, disassembled it. Last week he regretted his act. when Surgeon William Rose of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center asked permission to use the Simjian device first. Mr. Simjian, about to sail for England, promised to build another in autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Colored X-Rays | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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