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...Presbyterian General Council some time ago appointed a special committee to study the spiritual state of the Church. Members are: Moderator Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr; Dr. William Chalmers Covert, Philadelphia; Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Manhattan; Frederic B. Shipp, Pittsburgh; Stated Clerk Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Philadelphia. Last week the committee made its first public act: dedicated Feb. 18 as a day of personal prayer for the 10,000 Presbyterian ministers...
Among the 2,300 men and women in the U. S. who run private secondary schools, unique is the position of Elliott Speer, 32, Princeton 1920; son of famed Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer. He not only conducts the largest private secondary institution in the land but as President of Northfield Schools (enrollment: 1,230) he heads two schools-Mount Hermon School for boys and Northfield Seminary for girls. These seats of learning face each other across five miles of wooded hills, separated by the Connecticut river near Northfield, one mile from the northern boundary of Massachusetts...
...school grounds during vacations, are not part of the school year. Northfield being needy and this its semicentennial year, there is now in progress a drive for $3,000,000 to increase faculty pay, provide a teacher-retirement fund, secure upkeep for the physical property. Last week President Speer was happy to announce that one-half of the fund had been raised, that an appeal for funds had been laid before Edward Stephen Harkness, a seemingly inexhaustible source of educational charity ($26.000,000 to Yale and Harvard in three years...
Married. Constance Speer, of Manhattan, daughter of Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer, sister of President Elliott Speer of the Northfield Schools (see p. 26); and Dr. Robert F. Barbour of Edinburgh, Scotland; in Lakeville, Conn...
Freshman one mile relay--Won by Harvard (R. G. Werner, L. A. Lovett, H. Kollmeyer, N. P. Dodge), second, Dartmouth (D. H. Seixas, Robert Bush, J. E. Morrel, R. H. Watson): third, Cornell (M. K. Perin-chief, A. A. Cruikshank, G. W. Lautrup, J. Z. Speer). Time...