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...CELESTIAL OMNIBUS-E. M. Forster-Knopf ($2.00). Six strange and beautifully written stories by an author whom literary cognoscenti have for some time appraised as one of the most distinctive of modern English writers. A would-be picnic in the chestnut-woods above the Italian village of Ravello results surprisingly in a 14-year-old English boy's encounter with Pan himself- to his great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such...
...Gentleman's Church. The Right Rev. Charles H. Brent, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Western New York, spoke to 200 young churchmen at the Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia. These young men are considering going into the ministry, but are not committed to it. Bishop Brent gave them the following bon-mots: " The Protestant Episcopal Church needs a shaking up." " It is too closely identified with those who call themselves gentlemen." "Don't let society coddle you. What you are to do is to study what society is thinking and doing, and correct it in the places where...
...Beta Kappa Society, which will hold its annual exercises in Sanders Theatre at 11.30 o'clock tomorrow morning, announced last night the election of the second Senior Five which comprises the following: Joseph Sill Clark Jr. of Chestnut Hill, Pa.; Leon Medoff of Philadelphia; Theodore Morrison of Lynn; Richard Vincent Gilbert of Philadelphia; and Harry Peck of Dorchester...
...University was announced last night. The Bowdoin first prize in the competition for undergraduates has been won by Henry Jacob Friendly '23, of Elmira, N.Y., for an essay on "Church and State in England under William the Conqueror", and the second prize by Joseph Sill Clark Jr. '23, of Chestnut Hill, Pa., for an essay on "The Evolution of an Undergraduate". Friendly is first marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; Clark plays on the baseball team and holds the Francis H. Burr scholarship for "character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability...
...Business School tennis team won its first match of the season when it defeated Technology five matches to one at chestnut Hill yesterday afternoon. The Business School men had a comparatively, easy time in winning all of the singles matches. Russell of M. I. T. offered the greatest resistance and proved the strongest player on the Technology team, while Herndon starred for the University...