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...every good and enlightened Presbyterian the name Princeton signifies dissension. Reason: last spring the famed Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary, rich in lawns, leafage and endowment, long dedicated to old evangelical doctrine, underwent changes in control which guaranteed that its attitude and influence would hereafter be Modernistic. Famed conservative members of its faculty-John Gresham Machen, Robert Dick Wilson, Oswald Thompson Allis-later resigned and were instrumental in founding in Philadelphia the Westminster Seminary, where the abandoned Fundamentalist ideals of Princeton are now cherished (TIME, June...
...friend. It was an exposition of his Presidential philosophy, a broad de fense of his policies, his credo of politics. The friend was Dr. William Oxley Thompson, 75, for a quarter of a century president of Ohio State University, now its President Emeritus. Dr. Thompson, once Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, had sent President Hoover a belated New Year's message in which he deplored, in mellow, age-ripened words, the present "mob-mindedness" of public life, the self-interest of those who press in upon the President. Wondering how any President could keep his sanity, he exhorted President Hoover...
...Ferry attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University until he graduated in 1916. During the war he was detailed to interne service at the Presbyterian Hospital. Since that time he has done research work on blood in collaboration with Professor L. J. Henderson 98, of the Harvard Medical School. Lately he has been making a study of the physio-chemistry of immunity. He became an instructor in physical chemistry at Harvard in 1925. He has been instrumental in the building of the tutorial system in his department and became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in September...
...Protestant Episcopal Church stands midway between U. S. Catholicism and U. S. Protestantism. Many Protestants, remembering instances of Episcopalian refusal to recognize the validity of other Protestant orders (latest instance: Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning's) forbidding Dr. Karl Reiland to allow Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin to officiate at a communion service in an Episcopal church (TIME, Nov. 25), think Episcopalians have no right to call themselves Protestants. Many high-church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week...
Some 150 eminent U. S. and European psychiatrists last week helped dedicate the New York State Psychiatric Institute & Hospital, part of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian medical center. The visitors repaid their hosts by describing recent psychiatrical studies, conclusions...