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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colonies, since no English Bishop ever came to them; and he was not disposed late in life to seek a rite without which he had always maintained full church membership. Attendance upon church-services was his established and regular habit, rather than an infrequent practice, as you imply. The statement that "he was never known to pray in church" is a gratuitous assumption and a slur upon his sincerity as a participant in public worship. What would you expect him to do?interrupt the preacher and offer to lead the congregation aloud in prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...public prayer; but that was not because he did not believe in prayer or share in the prayers of the group, as you imply; it was because standing in prayer was the common practice of his day. He did not commune at Christ Church, Philadelphia, according to a statement of the rector, Bishop White. The possible reasons for Bishop White's statement, and its lack of evidential value as to Washington's general practice, were commented upon by Bishop Meade. There is quite as unimpeachable testimony that Washington did partake of the Communion, both before and after the period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Haven, Conn., November 10--Bruce Caldwell, Yale's halfback, is definitely barred from the gridiron for the remainder of the present season, and will not play in either the Princeton or Harvard game. This is the essence of a statement issued tonight by Professor G. H. Nettleton '96, chairman of the Board of Athletic Control of Yale University, after a prolonged session of that body here tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE HALFBACK DEFINITELY OUT | 11/11/1927 | See Source »

...full text of Professor Nettleton's statement is as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE HALFBACK DEFINITELY OUT | 11/11/1927 | See Source »

...SHORES of none other than THE ROTUND and illustrious PAUL POIRET PERHAPS better known to THOSE OF the fairer SEX but nevertheless WELL ENOUGH known to THE LESS deadly of the SPECIES, plus the APPEARANCE in a supposedly RATIONAL sheet in the SOMEWHAT LESS rational MIDDLE WEST of a STATEMENT to the effect that HARVARD MEN are the worst DRESSED MEN on any college CAMPUS the floor for DEBATE and a heated. DISCUSSION of the general QUESTION of men's APPAREL is thrown wide OPEN...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

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