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...Karens have always been a separate people; their conversion to Christianity intensified their division from the Buddhist Burmans. The first Karen convert was Ko Tha Byu, a Karen bandit bought out of slavery by Dr. Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary from Maiden, Mass, who had arrived in Burma in 1813. Ko Tha Byu learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive...
Teaching Fellows in Chemistry: Maurice M. Pechet, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, M. Sc. University of Alberta '40; and Adoniram J. Wells, of Cambridge...
...Mechem; George von L. Meyer, III; Charles L. Moore; Arthur Oakes, III; George F. Roberts; John A. Roosevelt; Renouf Russell; David W. Shean, Jr.; Carl Shirley; Donald C. Sleeper; John B. Stevens; Hobert C. Stuart; Robert Sullivan; John N. Thorne, Jr.; George F. Tyler, Jr.; Caspar W. Weinberger; Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; Robert T. Whitman; Edward F. Whitney; and Crocker Wight...
...Stephen H. Brennan, Jr., Charles H. Cretsmeyer, John W. Erhard, Herbert L. Furse, William T. Glendinning, Peter P. Hale, John H. Herrick, Douglas B. Kitchel, Captain Carroll R. Layman, Nathanael A. Lemke, Hertram M. Litman, Alexander C. Northrop, Winslow L. Pettingell, Theodore Plotkin, William W. Shirk, Robert C. Stuart, Adoniram J. Wells, Jr. William H. Wright, Jr. Manager, George H. Spencer...
Broad jump: Winslow L. Pettingell, Robert C. Stuart; discus: John H. Herrick; distance: Laurence S. Flaherty, Alexander C. Northrup, Randall W. Richards, Jr., William H. Wright, Jr.; javelin: Paul M. Glendenning, Charles D. Ruch; half-mile: Sherman Brayton, Arthur J. Clement, Jr., Robert E. Rogers, Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; hammer: Stephen H. Brennan, Jr., Charles D. Ruch; high-jump: George D. W. Berry, Winslow L. Pettingell, Theodore Plotkin, William W. Shirk; hurdles: Robert Fawcett, Douglas B. Kitchel, Carroll R. Laymen, Theodore P. Robie, John P. Sparrow; pole-vault: Winslow L. Pettingell; quarter-mile: Herbert L. Furse; shotput: Robert C. Downes...