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...First Spiritual Church of New York went Magician Howard Thurston. Magician Thurston had been quoted as saying that he could do anything with a watch-size instrument that mediums say they have done with supernatural power. One Arthur A. Ford was to contest the point in debate. Police had been called to prevent violent outbreaks...
...Howard Thurston, even though absent, was chosen as one of the vice presidents...
...Divine, Manhattan, went last week some three score of the 138 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They were called there by Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (Maryland) to elect two peers. Vacancies had occurred upon the resignations of Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts and Missionary Bishop Theodore P. Thurston of the District of Oklahoma. Before the House of Bishops convened, a third resignation unexpectedly arrived, from Missionary Bishop Nathaniel Seymour Thomas of the District of Wyoming, who said he wanted to "articulate the theological equipment of the students with modern life" as chairman of overseers at the Philadelphia Divinity...
...House accepted all three resignations; approved, as automatic successor to Bishop Lawrence, Bishop Coadjutor Charles Lewis Slattery; elected, to succeed Missionary Bishop Thurston, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Casady of All Saints, Omaha, Neb.; to succeed Missionary Bishop Thomas, the Rev. Dr. Horace Percy Silver of the Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan...
...unfortunate gastronomical situation is not peculiar to Harvard alone if one agrees with Thurston Macauley, writing in the current Forum. In an article mournfully titled "The Decline of Eating in America," Mr. Macauley says "Eating on this side of the Atlantic has become one of the lost arts." The problem Harvard faces also seems to be a national one--the result of America's special ogre, standardization. Cursing cafeterias and similar quick lunch places whose proud boast is a meal a minute, the epicure goes on to comment regretfully on the days when dinners were both edifying and edible. Like...