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Platonic Revolt. Knox is impressed too, though sometimes amused, by John Wesley, founder of Methodism. "Wesley," he writes, "was unashamedly a retailer; his societies formed a kind of cooperative movement, acquiring their culture on reduced terms at secondhand." But, although the gatherings Wesley addressed were often seized with the cacophony of shouts, sobs and groanings that are associated with enthusiasm, Knox feels that Wesley himself was no enthusiast. He finds the appeal of Wesley's sermons was "to the head, not primarily to the heart...
Movie producers are putting the finishing touches on a 12-minute sound movie in color showing the physical plant of the Law School, Wesley E. Bevins, assistant dean of the Law School, announced yesterday...
...Dean Wesley Sturges of the Yale Law School predicted that the proposal will be met with "varied emotional reactions." It represents the first time that the Association has officially considered the segregation...
...York's Harper brothers-James, John, Joseph Wesley and Fletcher -had made a name for themselves* in the book-publishing business, still had some idle press time on their hands. To keep presses and employees profitably busy they started Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a sort of undigested Reader's Digest of fiction of the day, bought the galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction...
...School started a capital drive for $2,500,000 of which $1,650,000 would go for the Graduate Center and for the renovation of old school buildings. The drive has raised $1,694,000 so far, Wesley F. Bevins, director of the campaign, reported yesterday...