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...deep-set eyes of Professor Arthur Holly Compton, Presbyterian and Nobel Prize physicist, darkled last week as he told a Manhattan audience that he and his University of Chicago associates will soon begin an intensive effort not only to break the hearts of atoms but also to create new atoms out of rambling electricity. These experiments may well become historic. Among the probers into the tough little universe of the atom, Professor Compton ranks with the most dexterous; and he has the great wealth and equipment of the University of Chicago at command...
...China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass., 3 shares; National Kindergarten Association, 2 shares; Dobbs Ferry (N. Y.) Hospital Association, 2 shares; Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, 2 shares; S. P. C. A. of Massachusetts, 1 share; M. E. Church, Irvington, N. Y., 1 share...
Twenty-two of the 28 members of the Federal Council's committee?including Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Dr. John Abner Marquis, onetime (1916) Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, President Albert William Heaven of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and George Woodward Wickersham?approved the use of contraceptives...
...Pittsburgh last week, a special committee of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. approved a resolution on marriage & divorce for adoption by the General Assembly in May. Chief new provision: a complete medical examination and certificates of health for all affianced couples...
...personality, background and ambition the teammates are as different as they appear on the platform. Pianist Maier, volatile, talkative, fairly bursting with energy, comes from Buffalo, the son of a retail shoe dealer. As a boy he had a burning desire to be a Presbyterian minister. He went to the New England Conservatory of Music instead, there met Lee Pattison of Eagle Grove, Iowa, who had always quietly intended being a musician. In Boston the friends gave their first two-piano recitals, then in 1914 went to Berlin to study with Arthur Schnabel, famed Brahms expert who came...