Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Dr. John Alexander Mackay was inducted as president of the Princeton University Theological Seminary, the oldest theological school of the Presbyterian church in the U. S., the procession of famed educators that attended arrived greatly disheveled and windblown...
Such a dilemma confronted Rev. J. Fred Johnson of Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. last fortnight when a deacon informed him that Mary Katherine Prince and Frank Otto Cotton Jr. had been married-properly, by a Georgia clergyman-for two years. They had kept it secret from all but a handful of friends and Preacher Johnson had to break the news to the bride's mother. Thinking of the 500 engraved invitations, the church decorations, the reception at her home, Mother Prince fainted. When she revived, she discussed the matter with Preacher Johnson until near dawn...
...University's Provost, handsome Charles Seymour, was absent. He rarely misses a Corporation meeting, but at that moment he was in his office in Berkeley College. The meeting was brief. Connecticut's roly-poly Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross scuttled out, taking with him famed Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin, to announce to his friend Charles Seymour that he had been elected the 15th president of Yale. "The news," said suave Mr. Seymour, "was a pleasant surprise." No great surprise to Yalemen, the news crowned two of the brightest careers in U. S. education. Brisk, witty James Rowland...
Editorship of the Dispensatory has been in the hands of one family since the first volume appeared in 1833. First editor was Dr. George Bacon Wood (1797-1879)> Philadelphia Quaker, physician and pharmacologist. Next came Dr. Horatio Charles Wood (1841-1920), his Quaker nephew, a pharmacologist and neurologist. His Presbyterian grandnephew, the present Dr. Horatio Charles Wood, then took over the job. Last week, when he stacked the first Dispensatory on his desk beside the last, Pharmacologist Wood was looking at a proud scientific family monument...
...Manhattan, bedded in Presbyterian Hospital reading a detective-story magazine, Drugstore Messenger Jacob Bastocky, 22, was startled to see the picture of an escaped criminal named Joseph Martin whose face he at once spotted two beds away. Keen-eyed Bastocky calmly rang for an orderly who glanced at the magazine photograph and Patient Martin, summoned police...