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With diligent disregard for the Labor Government, the New Socialism and the Machine Age, the ceremony of Swan-upping was performed last week just as it always has been. At exactly high tide, six graceful white boats were launched at Southwark Bridge: two for the King, two for the Vintners, two for the Dyers. Most impressive were the King's rowboats. From their sterns hung large white standards bearing the crown and royal cipher. At their prows were small red and white "swan flags." Two Swanherds in scarlet coats rowed each boat. At the tiller of each...
Swan-upping differs from many another colorful, archaic British custom in that it is strenuous, gruelling work. Swan-masters and Swanherds must always start their upstream row from Southwark Bridge, despite the fact that no swans have been seen near Southwark for 100 years...
...first served as an assistant at Old St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, then was rector of Trinity Church, Southwark, for five years. Since 1892 he has been rector of the Chester Church. In 1904 he was elected missionary bishop to South Dakota but declined the position because he wished to stay in Philadelphia with his ill mother. He is not married...
Lately, the Rt. Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett, Bishop of Southwark, England, caught the colorful spirit of the age and pleaded for brighter Bibles. Said...
...article closes with this quotation from the president of the Robert Browning Settlement in London: "After Master John Harvard had made his appearance on this world's stage, is it not possible that the great poet visited the Harvard home in Southwark and dandled the infant university-provider on his knee? And so you have before you the probability that the founder of the first American university was the issue of a marriage brought about through the instrumentality of the Bard of Avon a combination of which we may well be proud...