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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earnest and simple Christian, he was held in affectionate esteem by thousands of Chinese. Of him Dr. Keigwin, pastor of the Manhattan congregation which maintained Dr. Williams in China, said, on learning of his death, "Jack Williams was one of the best friends China ever had.... If he could speak he would say he accounted it a privilege to go to the Cross as Christ went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dr. Williams | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...called an obscene man." "Got home and found little wifey out. Found a dress partly done and I finished it on the machine for her and had the bastings out before she came. How she laughed." "Oh how can I express the joy of my soul or speak of the mercy of God." When he was not misspelling the journal of his days, Anthony Cornstock acted as president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. In this capacity he hunted Satan, finding his prey sometimes in the guise of a bartender brandishing a pack of cards, more often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...English literature. English 79 surveys English literature by types, familiarizing students with fundamental critical ideas and terms, and interpreting the purposes and methods of the various types of poetry and prose. This course is exceptionally advantageous for those who are intending to concentrate in English. It shows, so to speak, "what it is all about". Finally, English 78 introduces to the main facts in the social, political, and intellectual history of the various periods of English literature. It helps one to realize that literature grows out of and expresses the life of its day, and that it can hardly...

Author: By J. S. P. tatlock, | Title: Choosing A Field of Concentration | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

President: Lowell and L. F. Daley, '27 will speak at the Senior Smoker to be held tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the Living-Room of the Union. Two other speakers, representative graduates of Harvard, will speak on the relations between graduates and undergraduates. Their names will be announced later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL AND DALEY TO SPEAK AT 1927 SMOKER | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...other choice open for the nine o'clock period is of interest more per se than from any possible practical point of view. Professor Usher will speak in Economics 10b on "Merchant Shipping of England and Holland in 1600" in Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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