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...founded the Dayton West minster Choir, first made up of factory men and women, but later, because workers could not give the time to satisfy the Williamson ideal, of people who, like himself, wished to devote their lives to church and choral music. Today the choir of the Westminster Presbyterian Church is preeminently a choral school where more than 100 men and women from 30 states have gathered for the three-year course that fits them to be choral conductors...
Last week in Manhattan, the Presbytery of New York appointed five "divorce counsellors."* One of these must be consulted by all Presbyterian ministers before they may marry divorcees. The Presbyterian Church recognizes only infidelity and desertion as divorce grounds...
What was more, the stock was kept so much at home in this old Presbyterian family that until recently Phelps Dodge has remained practically a closed corporation. Few copper stocks have had the advantage of such respectable and exclusive upbringing. Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (Princeton classmate of Woodrow Wilson), was interested not only in copper; he became president of the board of trustees of Robert College, Constantinople. His twin sons have divided between them his interests in copper and oriental education: Cleveland E. is vice-president of Phelp? Dodge; Bayard is president of the American University of Beirut, Syria.† Executive...
...Philadelphia last week Presbyterian women stoutly let it be known that they didn't want to keep silence. Hitherto in Presbyterian councils and assemblies only male voices had been heard. Why not the mellifluence of female voices? Hitherto from Presbyterian pulpits only male voices had preached the Gospel, pointed the moral. Why not have female ministers? Prim reactionary Presbyterians shuddered at the thought that the Princeton or Auburn Theological Seminary might become coeducational. Advanced non-alarmist thinkers like Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, said: "I welcome the proposal . . . that women be given an equal...
Consolidation. Dry organizations therefore marched forward to take up front-rank positions about the White House, close to Mr. Hoover's blue serge shoulder. Last week in Philadelphia the executive committee of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, after sending an emissary to Washington, joined its Department of Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that...