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Evangelists are needed in the colleges to overcome "atheism and moral chaos"--this is the prescription recommended by the Reverend Doctor S. Edward Young, a Presbyterian minister of Brooklyn. Dr. Young assumes that the tendency in the colleges is toward atheism, and he assumes, moreover, that moral chaos is the natural outcome of atheism. Neither assumption seems justified...
...Brooklyn, at Beth Hakneses Anshei Bialystok Synagog, 500 guests in cloaks and suits had assembled to witness the marriage of one Ann Shapiro to one Harry Levy. At 6 p. m., the bride uttered a scream. She had forgotten the marriage license. A wedding guest, dispatched for it, was stopped by a traffic policeman. At 3 p. m., the limp guests stood up, rejoicing that Cantor J. Briah had begun the ceremony. Came a stern, interrupting voice-that of the cantor of the synagog, one A. Gartenhaus. He forbade the function to proceed unless he conducted it. The haggard wedding...
...election held last Saturday, the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa elected the following Seniors to membership: Bernhard Goldman Bechhoefer, of St. Paul, Minn; Philip Wigglesworth Chase, of Milton; Charles Franklin Dunbar, of Cambridge; Robert Maurice Davidson of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hugh Langdon Elstree of Preston Hollow, N. Y.; William Alexander Grimes, of Catonsville, Me.; Saul Wallenstein Jarcho, of New York, N. Y.; Victor Harris Kugel, of New Haven, Conn.; Morris Marden, of Winthrop; Prescott Clifton Mabon, of New York, N. Y.; Henry Reiff of New York, N. Y.; Irwin Rosen of Lowell; Albert Eberle Schwartz, of Cincinnati...
...Brooklyn, one Moses Anderson, Negro idler, strolled in the spring sunshine, responded vocally to the lambent weather by yodelling a popular song. Children in a nearby public school heard, through the open window, the syncopated quaverings, began to chant the words: Red Hot Mamma.* Teachers besought silence. Disorder continued. Idler Anderson was arrested, charged with committing a public nuisance. Indignant, he asked that his voice be given a hearing. Policemen, magistrate, court officials, listened to the strains of Red Hot Mamma, sentenced Anderson to the workhouse...
...Polish woman came to Ellis Island, N.Y., three years ago and was found to be admissible except on one point: she could not read nor write. Her case was taken into court; she was released on bond; went to Brooklyn; studied. Last week, the courts decided against her; she was ordered deported. That she can now read makes no difference. She is Mrs. Jacob Bushbaum of Brooklyn...