Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
Announcement of the receipt of the resignation of Professor Coolidge '95 from the Board of Directors of the Watch and Ward was made to the CRIMSON last evening by Rev. Raymond Calkins '90, President of the Society. Professor Coolidge has been connected with the House Plan since his appointment last winter as House Master of Lowell House, one of the two new resident units now nearing completion...
...announced: "Apparently most of the two million Welshmen in the U. S. heard me and every mother's son of 'em sent me a telegram." Singer-Secretary Davis was asked for his own translation of his hymn. He begged off, said he was too busy. His friend Rev. Robert Perry of Washington supplied what he termed a ''very free translation": The Blood of the Cross the weak exalteth, More than conquerors to be; The Blood of the Cross the strong abaseth; Myriad hosts to bow to Thee; Oh, revive me With breezes from Calvary...
...laboratory with a leakproof solution of gasoline and paraffin when a spark exploded it. Died. Sadao Saburi, 50, Japanese Minister to China, onetime Counselor of the Japanese legation at Washington; at Miyanoshita; by his own hand (revolver). Apparent cause: depression since the death of his wife in 1927. Died. Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director of Georgetown University Seismological Observatory ; at Washington; of heart disease. For 25 years he located, observed, reported some 9,000 earthquakes yearly. Died. Robert Forster Whitmer, 65, President of Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill...
...world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest...