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...Atlanta Georgian and Sunday American. In 1927 he gave Oglethorpe $25,000 and his third son, John, as a student. Grateful Oglethorpe promptly gave Mr. Hearst an LL. D., the only university degree he has ever received. Two years later the grateful publisher gave Oglethorpe a 400-acre wooded tract, valued at $125,000, adjoining its campus. Oglethorpe made him vice president of its Board of Directors. He put himself down for $100,000 on a million dollar pledge list not yet called in. President Jacobs ascribes Publisher Hearst's interest in Oglethorpe to his Southern ancestry, his Atlanta...
...members and appointed its third and newest missionary. Calling the General Assembly's action unconstitutional and "a foolish gesture," a Manhattan Board member named James E. Bennet declared: "We have a perfect right as Presbyterians to give money to the Y. M. C. A., to the American Tract Society, the American Bible Society, the China Inland Mission and any other missionary cause, but the General Assembly decrees we have no right to give our money, if we choose, to the Independent Board. . . ." ¶Though it has been much discussed in the past 18 months, the report of the Laymen...
Such pious words, on little leaflets and pamphlets, are the stock in trade of the American Tract Society, an interdenominational, evangelical body founded 109 years ago. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Society announced that during the year past it distributed 5,889,103 pieces of Christian literature in 25 languages, a gain of 369,277 items over the year before. Since its foundation the Society has distributed 855,000,000 tracts in 181 languages. Its missionaries have visited 2,500,000 homes, conducted 650,000 religious meetings throughout the world. The Society works not in competition with ministers...
...lairs from the wind that blows off the Firth of Tay from the North Sea, called the place Kilrymont or Muckross. Later St. Regulus, the Bishop of Patras in Achaea, was guided thither bearing the relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they did not get around to organizing the Royal...
...turned out a satire if her Christian sympathy had not got the better of her partisan indignation. A 172-page narrative in various verses, Efficiency Expert is another indication that long poems are coming out of hiding, may once again come to be used effectively as satire, narrative or tract. Author Converse's poem is a tract in the form of a narrative. The story: an efficiency expert has just invented a machine which will displace 300 workers in his mill. He worries about it because he knows and likes most of the men who will have...