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...thinking about girls in college that gave the Rev. James Harry Price his idea. Mr. Price is rector of suburban Scarsdale, N. Y.'s Episcopal Church of St. James the Less. Last fall he learned that ten girls from Scarsdale had entered Smith that September. That seemed a good many Smith freshmen from one small town. Mr. Price leafed through his parish list, found that 260 boys & girls were away at school and college, most of them in New England. Why not pay them a visit? Lots of parsons visit lots of schools every year, reasoned Rector Price...
...crowded round of services, Communions, breakfasts, lunches, teas, dinners and just plain get-togethers, in eight days Rector Price visited 25 schools and colleges (Yale, Wesleyan, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, Harvard, M. I. T., Radcliffe, Exeter, St. Paul's, Dartmouth, Bennington, Kent, Taft, etc.), talked with a hundred youngsters from Scarsdale, got home this week with the car muddy and himself full of ambition. Some of the encouraging things he found on his trip...
...single boy or girl Rector Price met was a conscientious objector. But he found no enthusiasm for the U. S. entering the war, a general feeling among the boys that they were willing to be drafted, but far from eager...
Other Murray Hill churches, watching staid brownstone mansions give way to office buildings and apartment houses, have moved or merged. But eloquent, liberal, Georgia-born Dr. John Gass decided Incarnation should reincarnate instead, submitted his own resignation as rector to facilitate the change...
After the convention adjourned, Dr. Bowen came out for a compromise candidate: the Rev. Wallace Edmonds Conkling, rector of St. Luke's, Germantown, Pa., who was described as a "liberal Catholic"-the liberal to satisfy Low-churchmen, the Catholic to appease High-churchmen. Last week the convention met again, chose Father Conkling on the second ballot. For the first time in the history of the diocese, the bishop-elect did not accept at once, said he would first have to go to Chicago and survey the situation...