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...continuance of a Boston University dynasty of Methodist clergymen has been the point at issue in a controversy in the Boston Transcript this week over the recent appointment of a Pittsburgh minister as president of the institution...
...sympathetic trial of the president-elect was criticised Wednesday by a prominent Bostonian, Charles K. Bolton of the Athenaeum, as leaving the main issue untouched. He suggested that the Boston public, more than once appealed to for financial support may well object to an unbroken line of Methodist clergymen at the head of such an institution, and asked whether a man's usefulness as a Methodist pastor in Pittsburgh was "in itself a sufficient qualification to make him the head of a great university in a city with which he has not been identified...
...Lane Miller, pastor of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church (Brooklyn), viewed the incident as a challenge to Christians of the U. S. to consider "how their own country is drifting...
...Christian F. Reisner of the Methodist Church said...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions announced at New York that Dictator-President Leguía has taken it upon himself to appoint a U. S. Methodist Episcopal medical missionary, Dr. Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American Hospital at Lima, Peruvian capital, and that he has frequently had occasion to attend professionally both the indomitable Señor Leguía and numerous members of his militant Administration...