Word: testings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond...
College Chapel. To test the present trend regarding compulsory religious education in U. S. colleges, the National Student Federation of America sent questionnaires to 315 college presidents and heard from practically every one. The vote: in favor of compulsory Sunday chapel attendance, 136, against 176; in favor of compulsory daily chapel, 220, against...
...hypochondria, especially among its most numerous non-native members, but also to genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test to pass before his discussion of sexual unhappiness, his strictures on adult-infantilism, his "shudder" and "premonition" of a new Dark Age, can be accepted by the fairly happy rank and unselfconscious file whose physicians still give them castor oil, gruff instructions...
Harvard's new players, on the other hand, have not all proved their worth. Meadows and Saltonstall, the ends, have done exceedingly well in the early contests, but neither has played in a contest of major importance. Putnam and French are brilliant Sophomores whose big test comes today. Whoever replaces Daley at guard, whether it be Simonds, Goodwin, or Stewart--the chances favor Simonds--will be in his first big game. Gamache, like Dooley, played two years ago, but unlike the Indian star, did not emerge from their contest covered with glory. Captain Coady was not in the starting lineup...
Engaged. Lord Sholto George Douglas, third son of the late famed fistic arbiter, John Sholto Douglas, eighth marquess of Queensberry; to Mrs. Mendelssohn Pickles, mother of famed Australian airplane test pilot Sydney Pickles...