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...conceive his task as primarily that of promoting this organization. His Board, as a rule, embodies and intensifies this conception; and the missionary is likely to be dominated by the expectations of his Board. . . . The trail of self-interest within the organization lies like the trail of the serpent over the missions of Asia within our purview...
Morrison is the author of a poem entitled "The Serpent in the Clouds" and has been a contributor to various magazines both in this country and abroad. He has been connected with the Alumni Bulletin in the capacity of book review editor until his retirement to take up his new duties this year...
...Hotel. Part of his speech, as reported by the News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully thwarting the Governor's chances of renomination. Mr. Walker's sentences bristled with epithets reminiscent of Denver's newspaper wars: "vulture," "rattlesnake," "vilest man who . . .", "public enemy," "slimy serpent," "contemptible dog of Champa Street," "foulest, dirtiest, vilest piece of newspaper work. . . ." Publisher Bonfils took no action against Chairman Walker. Nor did he-as he would have done a few years ago-loose a withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages of his Post. Instead he marched into...
...Ooooh! The Ogopogo!" cried a woman tennis player, pointing her racquet at Okanagan Lake. And again, last week, news readers throughout the land were reminded of British Columbia's fabulous lake-serpent. A gentle monster, 30 ft. long, "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog, four flippers and vegetarian habits," the Ogopogo has appeared in Okanagan Lake every summer for the past six years. Usually it is sighted by a newshawk...
...years later touring members of the Vancouver Board of Trade were guests of the Vernon, B. C., Rotary Club. Someone sang the Ogopogo song, the Rotarians picked it up, went Ogopogo hunting. But long before that Indians had seen the mysterious lake-serpent. Most likely explanation is that the Ogopogo is a mother otter followed by her pups swimming in tandem...