Word: revs
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Fordham is through with football's big time, said its president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon. It will still play intercollegiate games, but "does not want ever again a football team rated among the nation's ten heaviest. It doesn't do us any good financially, scholastically, socially or athletically," Father Gannon said. "We are not interested in providing business for the gambling fraternity and we are not interested in the sports writers . . . the tyrants of tyrants. We are interested in staging contests for our students, the alumni, friends and those on the subway circuit who cross...
...football games- Hamilton's Tigers lost to Toronto's Argonauts, 13 to 1. Over the northern prairies lay a heavy overcast; "fowl weather," said the gunners, setting out to shoot geese or ducks for the holiday table. At Mile 450, on the railway to Churchill, the Rev. W, E. Williamson hoped to bag a caribou, planned to share the meat with his Negro congregation in Chicago...
Chief speaker at the service was moose-tall Rev. Charles Oscar Johnson of St. Louis, new president of the Alliance and onetime president (1932-33) of the Northern Baptists. Johnson, a genial, 260-lb. ex-farm boy from east Tennessee, runs one of the livest and most prosperous churches in St. Louis, where he has a reputation for knowing how to take care of himself in a fight without losing his enormous personal popularity. A humble man. he likes to be called Oscar. "I don't like anything," he once said, "that is going to separate me from...
...some of the news was good. The Rev. William Warren Sweet of the University of Chicago cheerfully reported that "American Methodism is growing richer & richer. Never have our churches and colleges and universities been so prosperous, never have endowments mounted so high. There have been more church debts paid off in the past few years than ever before in Methodist history...
Support for the Rev. Rembert Stokes, councilmanic candidate, and the Rev. Kenneth Hughes, aspirant for a Cambridge school board post, has already been voted by the H.L.U. executive board. Ratification by the organization's membership is necessary before the stand is official...