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...Alabamian refused to admit Negroes to a public meeting, he would surprise nobody. Neither would a Virginian who refused to attend a church where Negroes were worshipping. Last fortnight the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Texas-born Brooklyn rector, asked Negro members of his congregation to go elsewhere to church. A lot of people were surprised. A lot of others were incensed...
Chess matches, unlike engagements of brawn, can be reproduced bodily. Experts, meditatively recapitulating the tournament games from published scores, opined that the one between Nimzowitsch and Dr. Milan Vidmar, Rector of the University of Ljubljana and eminent professor of electrodynamics, best illustrated the art and strategy of the new champion. In it there were no traps, no blunders, Nimzowitscii won by forceful, logical .?ggrec:'on. The play...
...Aged 31, rector, St. Paul's Church, Syracuse, N.Y., an important and influential parish...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Hugh Birckhead, 52, rector of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, onetime assistant, later successor, of the Rev. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (longtime [1882-1906] rector of St. George's Church, Manhattan, worship-place of John Pierpont Morgan et al); in Newport...
Editor of The Churchman and last week's Hays-baiter is Guy Emery Shipler who on weekdays tends to the publication of his magazine, on Sundays preaches to the congregation of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chatham, N. J. of which he is rector. Editor Shipler, native of Warsaw, N. Y., studied at Hobart College from 1902 to 1905, then turned to reporting for the Boston Traveler. He went to The Churchman in 1917, became its editor five years ago. Other Shipler crusades have been: Attacks on censorship of any sort; pleas for the liberation of Mooney & Billings, California...