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Birthplace of Methodism in the U. S. was Savannah, Ga., where John Wesley preached and Charles Wesley sang hymns in their first U. S. meeting (1736). To see relics and memorials of the Brothers Wesley this week will go 550 delegates to the Sixth Ecumenical Conference of Methodism, which opened its meetings last week in Atlanta. Held every ten years, it was the second ecumenical conference to meet in the U. S., the first to meet in the South...
...Last month Bishop Cannon was snubbed by Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon who, presiding over a church conference at Roanoke, Va., did not invite Bishop Cannon to sit on the platform. Bishop Cannon complained, left the room unapplauded. In marked contrast last week, 2,000 people in Atlanta's Wesley Memorial Church applauded vigorously as Bishop Cannon, still suffering from arthritis ("aggravated," said he, "by the thrusts of Wet interests seeking to crush me") crutched his way down the 'aisle to take a seat on the platform. Night before, speaking in Atlanta Auditorium on "Prohibition Repeal Unthinkable-Shall...
Died. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, 70, chairman of the corporation and one-time (1923-30) president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, originator and one time (1901-23) director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards; of coronary occlusion (constriction of the heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped...
...strongest members of the Crimson team are Arthur Foote '33, J. W. Fox '32, B. E. Estes '32, J. W. Fobes '32, G. N. Barrie '32, R. P. Wesley '33, and David Cobb '31, who gave Harvard a score of 20 points against 54 for M. I. T. and 68 for Dartmouth in last years race...
...five of the past six years, will put a strong University team in the field, including Captain N. P. Hallowell, Jr. '32; B. E. Estes '32, G. N. Barrie '32, J. M. Fox '32, veterans of four years competition, Arthur Foote '33, F. D. Murphy '33, and R. P. Wesley...