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Commissions as second lieutenants of Field Artillery, Officers' Reserve Corps, will be awarded to the following: Thomas Elias Armstrong, of Denver, Colo.; Lawrence Soule Apsey, of Cambridge; Horace Lane Arnold, of Brookline; Walter Ray Baylies, of Boston; Wesley Meredith Behrens, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Richard Foster Howard, of Cambridge; John Casimir Mrowca, of Taylor, Pa.; William Joseph Will O'Hearn, of Roxbury, and William Morris Rosenbaum of Woodmere...
...Brooklyn, a Filipino (Pancho Villa) won a decision from a Welshman (Frankie Ash) and retained the flyweight (116 pound) boxing championship of the world. The brute strength of Villa failed to crush utterly the clever Ash, frail, skinny, anemic "with arms like pipe-stems and legs like reeds." Though Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only...
Shaltuck Scholarships,--M. S. Demos 1G of Athens, Greece; K. W. Halbert 2G, of Cambridge; K. O. Myrick, of West Newbury: J. L. Ross 1G, of Meadville, Pa; M. M. Slotnick 2G. of Brooklyn, N. Y.; P. W. Souers 1G, of Des Moines, Iowa...
...Between us geographically is the East River, but theologically there is something far broader and deeper than the East River. Brooklyn still believes in the Bible as the inspired word of God. Brooklyn still believes in Jesus as the Son of God, as 'very God of very God.' Brooklyn still believes in 'the five points as affirmed and reaffirmed by our General Assembly. Brooklyn still contends earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints...
...While Dr. Macartney at Grand Rapids was eulogizing Brooklyn the Methodists at Springfield (Mass.) assembled (TIME, May 12, et seq.), hammered out an anti-war doctrine. The strongly pacifist resolution (TIME, May 26) demanding that the Methodist Church dissociate itself from all war, offensive or defensive, was defeated. Pacifists led by Dr. Ray Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed...