Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless Mrs. Coolidge would recall the inscription on her cornerstone, and be pleased to find many more by the same author graven here and there within the edifice. The author was diminutive twinkle-eyed the Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University and of U. S. letters, a close friend of Dr. Irvine. Never the nation's laureate, Dr. van Dyke was yet to have a work of his attended, upon its first public hearing, by the first lady and gentleman of the land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn...
...recently elected Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Eplsgopal Church, the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray has taken a firm stand against 99 11-100 percent Americanism. In an article in the October issue of the American Church Monthly, Bishop Murray writes. "Good is in the ascendant, and the comparative ratio of increase (of population) is decidedly in its favor. We are living in the best age of human history." Is it by accident that the leaders of our public life are such defiant optimists. Or is it one more indication of why we are so popular in Europe? New Republic...
FLATLAND - A Square - Little, Brown ($1.50). Some 40 years ago, critics hurled brickbats and bouquets, hurled them hard, at this small book, whose pseudonymous author was then headmaster of the City of London School, the Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by erudite William Garnett, in view of the detection of a fourth dimension by Dr. Einstein. It is a geometric romance for non-mathematicians; an extremely simple fable with amazing implications and a vein of social satire that remains ageless...
...Rev. Raymond Calkins, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Very Rev. Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, D.D., Dean of Chester, England, will conduct the services tomorrow at 11 o'clock in Appleton Chapel...