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...University tennis squad will compete in the National Indoor Mixed Doubles tournament which opens today on the Longwood covered courts at Chestnut Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS SQUAD TO ENGAGE WITH FAIR SEX IN TOURNEY | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

...Dickey's book there are astonishing stories about Mrs. Eddy. He explains how she was "fond of dress," how she manicured her nails every morning, how her house, in the sedate Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, was fitted with an elaborate system of bells by which her "watchers" could be summoned. Mr. Dickey relates how Mrs. Eddy requested her disciples to care for the weather. "During some severe New England winters our leader would instruct her workers they must put a stop to the snow which she regarded as a manifestation of error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scientists | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...more conscious of the malignance of her "enemies," against whom her disciples kept single watch around her bed, when she felt pain in the night. These enemies were the "mortal minds" most energetic in attacking her beliefs; they hung like a pack of phantoms around her neat house in Chestnut Hill and she could hear their painful voices screaming in the dark. Once she went for a drive with Mr. Dickey and said this to him on their return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scientists | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Died. Andrew Adie, 61, native of Scotland, President of the Earnshaw Knitting Co., director of many New England woolen mills and knitting companies; in Chestnut Hill, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing over a chestnut with Headmaster Alfred E. Stearns of Andover. Young Headmaster Van Santvoord of Hotchkiss doubtless listened with respect to his elders on such subjects as Fourth Form Latin, black-bean soup and the price of automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Times Have Changed | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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