Word: midway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protestant Episcopal Church stands midway between U. S. Catholicism and U. S. Protestantism. Many Protestants, remembering instances of Episcopalian refusal to recognize the validity of other Protestant orders (latest instance: Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning's) forbidding Dr. Karl Reiland to allow Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin to officiate at a communion service in an Episcopal church (TIME, Nov. 25), think Episcopalians have no right to call themselves Protestants. Many high-church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week...
...American Baptist Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution was contributed by William Rainey Harper, the 35-year-old Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale whom the 'founders asked to be their first president. Youngman Harper said: "I am not interested in starting...
Induction. A block east of the dun-colored house provided for the University of Chicago's president (in the barn of which Mrs. Hutchins will sculp and not keep an automobile), facing the broad Midway across the street from John D. Rockefeller's $1,500,000 chapel, stands Ida Noyes Hall, the women's centre, given by the late La Verne Noyes ("Dealer in People," inventor of the aeromotor) in memory of his wife. Here the induction procession formed, young President Hutchins preceded by the trustees and by five-score other college presidents, including his father, and by the faculty...
...Armstrong has long planned to anchor his first full-size seadrome midway between Manhattan and Bermuda. Studying hydrographic charts of the region he figured that there must exist a high spot on the ocean floor about where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas...
...stately stream of men and women, capped, gowned, uniformed. They had to dig in their heels, so as to proceed with the gravity the occasion demanded, and tortuously descended from Brown's campus to the First Baptist Meeting House ("built for public worship and to hold commencements in") midway down College Hill. This was the formal part of Dr. Barbour's induction...