Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, the 224th year of Yale University found a new institute of psychology and a new natural history museum ready for use. At the one, Profs. Robert M. Yerkes (onetime member of the National Research Council) and Raymond Dodge (erst of Wesleyan), and, Clark Wissler (Manhattan), will lecture. Into the other, Yale's stuffed animals, pressed flowers and labeled rocks will be transported and displayed for examination by the inquisitive...
...James Whitford Bashford; pastor, educator, author, M. E. Bishop of Peking, China. Born Fayette, Wis., 1849-died 1919. President of Ohio Wesleyan College, 1889-1904. Characterized by his students as "What-can-I-do-for-you" Bashford; by the Chinese, among whom he numbered many distinguished friends, as "the man with the shining face." A tremendous worker; carried a case of books with him when travelling and wrote many books himself. Among other strong views he held women should be admitted to the ministry...
...first prize of $100 was awarded to Miss Ruth Morton of the University of Minneapolis. A second prize of $50 was awarded to William A. Reiss of Ohio Wesleyan University, while the third prize went to Miss Laura Murfee Anderson of Judson College, Marion...
Professor Frank E. Farley, professor of English literature at Wesleyan University, has been appointed visiting lecturer in English for the second half of next year, and Aubrey A. Douglass is to be lecturer on secondary education in the Graduate School of Education...
...when missionaries in foreign fields endeavor to translate them into heathen tongues. In Chinese, for example, the Methodist Episcopal Mission becomes, literally, "the doubly beautiful society," because there are two m's in M. E. M., and the Chinese pronounces m as "may," and "may" means "beautiful." The Wesleyan Methodists are the "following the Doctrine society," the Lutherans the "doing the Doctrine society," the Limited Methodists the "be with me society," the Congregationalists the "common sense society...