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...land is said to have been given by George Washington. Among its alumni: the late Composer Stephen Collins Foster ("Swanee River," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home"), the late James Gillespie Elaine, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Professor John Livingston Lowes of Harvard, Peter Moore Speer, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., the late Episcopal Bishop Coadjutator David Hummell Greer of New York, the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. W. & J. students are fond of virile gear such as corduroys and sturdy boots. Most of them like their...
...Suffragan Bishops Arthur Selden Lloyd and Charles Kendall Gilbert of the Diocese of New York, Dr. Dubois S. Norris of Manhattan's Central Presbyterian Church,f District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, Lawyer & Mrs. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Jay Schieffelin, Lawyer Samuel Scoville Jr. of Philadelphia, Mrs. Robert E. Speer and some 1,000 more. To hear direct testimony, to see Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They found it exuberant, direct, its testimonies as heartfelt as those heard in oldtime Bowery missions, only here the witnesses were young people of culture and refinement? college students, city preachers, businessmen...
...fumed to himself: "Socialism, indeed!" Hastily next day, like a mother seeking to explain away a gaffe her child has uttered, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., in the persons of General Secretary Fred W. Ramsey and Board President Mrs. Robert E. Speer (respectively) explained that the report, Toward a New Economic Society, was no work of their organizations but a pamphlet published by the Economics Commission of the National Council of Student Christian Associations...
Quick to get facts, Northfield's President Elliott Speer was the first to ascertain that the estate had been grossly over-estimated in popular notion, that it would come to scarcely more than $30,000,000 and that the residue, to be divided on a percentage basis, might not be more than $20,000,000. Thus, Northfield's share would be only $300,000 and Nanking's about $3,500,000. Even so, it was a huge sum for a theological seminary in China (raising deep questions as to its proper use); but it was not the golden vision which...
...even in marriage must be regarded as a regrettable necessity. . . . Except where children are desired, married persons should remain celibate after marriage, as before." In this recommendation of abstinence, three of the 28 members of the Federal Council's Committee on Marriage and the Home concurred: Mrs. Robert Elliott Speer, president of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations; Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, president of the Council of Women for Home Missions; and Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of General Theological Seminary, Manhattan...