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...Year's honors. Pipe Major John MacDonald was given the Order of the British Empire for his excellent bagpiping. Salote. Queen of the Tonga or Friendly Islands, was made a Dame Commander of the same order. Queen Salote is over six feet tall, broad in proportion and very fond of broiled fish...
Onetime chairman of the Yale chapter of the A. A. U. P. is Professor Yandell Henderson, able physiologist, expert on noxious gases, no fearer of publicity. Born in Kentucky 58 years ago, graduated from Yale in 1895, he is a somewhat unkempt savant, fond of his pipe, his British tweeds, his tennis. Professor Henderson developed gas-masks used by U. S. troops in the World War, has done much research in automobile exhaust gases, in the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation. Year ago he wrote an article for the Yale Alumni Weekly in dispraise of "industrializing education...
Added Francis Bosworth of the Near East Foundation: "History is his specialty. He is particularly fond of Presidential Messages. . . . Every Greek intellectual...
...much dependence upon preaching "has resulted in a sad impotency in many areas of Protestant church life,'' Dr. Elbert M. Conover, director of the Methodist Bureau of Architecture, made a startling suggestion when he addressed the Methodist Board of Home Missions and Church Extension last week. Fond of stained glass, altars, reredoses, Dr. Conover said that few church officials can tell whether or not a blueprint is good, that too many churches are built like theatres and auditoriums, that Protestant church structures are not 5% efficient. His suggestion : wholesale church-burning...
...Moscow the Soviet Government opened last week the first little Red schoolhouse for children of U. S. and British engineers and workmen now helping Russia with her Five-Year Plan. Fond parents faced painful alternatives. The school, as Soviet officials frankly admitted, will try to turn every pupil into a little Bolshevik. But the Government offered free tuition & textbooks, reduced streetcar fares and for each hungry pupil a heaping hot lunch at 15?-such a lunch as would otherwise cost in Moscow at least...