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John Wanamaker was never exactly sure how old he was. He was born near Philadelphia in either 1837 or 1838, the eldest of seven children. The Wanamaker day started at 4 a. m., for the family worked hard, prayed hard. Born a Methodist, John became a Presbyterian...
Wailing from a Park Avenue Presbyterian pulpit, Dr. Meiklejohn, director of the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin, covers himself with his usual sackcloth and ashes and vainly questioning, beats the un answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education...
...next potent businessman to flay Prohibition was Henry Bourne Joy of Detroit, onetime president of Packard Motor Co. He identified himself as a Presbyterian, a five-year supporter of the 18th Amendment. Then he proceeded...
Albion (Mich.) College students, good Methodists, gleefully watched their basketball team beat their longtime Presbyterian rivals, Alma College (Alma, Mich.). After the game some 250 Albions tried to crash into a local cinema. Police arrested 150, but could find place for only twelve in the town jail. These were released by friends with pickaxes and crowbars. While the rest were being piled into a truck to be locked up in another town, their cronies fought with the constabulary. Addressed by the President of the College to no avail, the rioting continued until state troopers and tear gas bombs dispersed...
Died. Dr. David Perrie, 72, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada; at Wingham...