Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most serious is the statement that "last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000." The truth is they closed the year with no deficit whatever-a remarkable showing. The statement that under the proposed merger "Chicago would turn over its practical work to Presbyterian Hospital and, taking over Northwestern's ablest men, would concentrate on research" is also unfounded. The proposal of merger is still in an early stage of discussion. Nothing has been agreed upon and no action will be taken without thorough study and careful weighing of educational advantages and disadvantages...
Nkol Mvolan, meaning ''Hill of Help," is a Presbyterian station in Cameroons, West Africa. There, deeper in the jungle than any other Presbyterian missionaries, Dr. & Mrs. George W. Thorne tend the bodies and souls of blackamoors, some of whom still vividly remember their cannibal fathers and cannibal mothers...
...Economy is a point in the merger plans but not so big a point as certain education policies. Particularly involved is the question of medicine. Last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000. Under the merger, Chicago would turn over its practical work to the Presbyterian Hospital and, taking over Northwestern's ablest men, would concentrate on research. This would conform to the Rockefeller notion of emphasis on research...
...editors of The Nudist are two serious, high-minded, sincere clergymen, Dr. Henry Strong Huntington (Presbyterian) and Dr. Ilsey Boone (Baptist). The pictures they publish in The Nudist are never pornographic. They appear because "they give the cause a wide appeal ..." and "The Nudist is a missionary...
...healthy Christians who own pig savings banks and to 3,000,000 leprous individuals scattered throughout the world, the annual meeting of the American Mission to Lepers last week in the cozy Church House of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church was a momentous occurrence. At that meeting Dr. Victor George Heiser, Far East director of the Rockefeller Foundation and president of the International Leprosy Association, dramatically announced that leprosy is apparently being cured. In the process the lepers are dyed blue by injection into their veins of a dye called trypan-blue...