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Murdered. Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster of the Northfield (Mass.) Mount Hermon School for Boys, son of Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; by a shotgun discharged through his study window by an unknown assailant...
...Independent Hoard." ... On April 16 the Philadelphia Presbytery, long the recognized stronghold of Fundamentalism in that church, repudiated the Independent Hoard, went on record as "disapproving the formation of a new board." Conservatives and liberals united to defend the board of the church and its secretary, Robert Elliott Speer. Some weeks ago Dr. Machen, head of the new Board, sought to transfer his membership from the New Brunswick Presbytery (Princeton), where he was hopelessly alone, to Philadelphia, where he hoped to rally the forces of Fundamentalism. So many opposed his reception that he is "a man without a presbytery" until...
...Thompson extolled Pioneer Makemie. "with the care of all the churches on his shoulders," before a statue of him erected 25 years ago. Doubling back to look at churches at Pokomoke City and Snow Hill, the Presbyterians dined at Salisbury, listened to speeches by Missions Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer and onetime Northern Moderator Lewis Seymour Mudge who said God's word to the church is: "Now march, and lead America that America may become wholly Christian for America's sake, for the world's sake, for Christ's sake...
...Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as a mission teacher in China (TIME, May 8). Since then Dr. Machen had flayed Mrs. Buck for an "antiChristian propagandist,'' excoriated the Presbyterian Foreign Missions board for its "Yes-&-No" attitude, called everybody names including even much-revered Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer whom, by implication, he called "dishonest" and "evasive...
...Princeton: bow, Johnson; 2, Wood; 3, Kellogg; 4, Speer; 5, Rutherford; 6, Williams; 7, Hamilton; str., Howell; cox, Morrow. Second, Harvard: bow, A. D. Robertson 33; 2, Taggart Whipple '31; 4 F. J. Swayse '33; 4, Albert Haberstroh '35; 5, Gridley Barrows '34; 6, T. B. Knowles '34; 7, A. L. Nickerson '33; str., S. S. Drury, Jr. '35; cox, E. S. Litchfield. Third, M.I.T.; bow, Packard; 2, Freiberg; 3, Seeleman; 4, Bixby; 5, Loewenstein; 6, Graham; 7, Haskins; str., Westfall; cox, Emory. Times--Princeton, 9m. 15 3-5s.; Harvard...