Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professed Christian and with rare exception all of the teaching force belong to the Baptist faith. . . . The students take seriously the fact that Howard is a Christian college. . . ."-President John C. Dawson of Howard College in the college catalog. At Howard last week, up stood Horace Calvin Day, associate professor of biology, to demonstrate in a chapel talk to the students that perhaps the intellectual and the spiritual do not always embrace each other in the manner President Dawson suggests...
...last week and this week oil men were gathered in convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, where they discussed production, restricted production, overproduction and other topics conventional to oil conventions. They also discussed prospects of appointing some outstanding personage as Oil Tsar. One such personage, for example, would be Calvin Coolidge, onetime (1923-29) U. S. President, now occupationless...
...they failed to watch him), delighted in shooting the chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora cat which was anathematized by Calvin Coolidge who, disliking fancy breeds, said: "Anyone can see that his name is Mud." But when Mud's ear became abscessed. Mr. Coolidge dressed and lanced it tenderly...
...July 4 is Calvin Coolidge's birthday...
Last week a Foundation representative photographed Calvin Coolidge in Northampton for the modern section of this film, which is soon to be released...