Word: oldest
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...Philadelphia in 1787, St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church-standing today as the oldest church of the denomination in the U. S.-requested its handful of Negro members to segregate themselves at worship. Led by a prosperous teamster named Richard Allen and his friend Absalom Jones, the Negroes indignantly left the congregation, forthwith founded a benevolent organization called the Free African Society. From this group, first which U. S. Negroes formed to aid themselves socially and economically, stem all U. S. Methodist and Episcopal Negro churches. The majority of the Free Africans voted in 1791 to build an Episcopal...
From Burma the expedition will travel by airplane to Singapore and Bandeong Java. There, joining forces with Dr. Halph von Koenigswald, they will explore new sites along the Solo River, where last year von Koenigswald discovered the skull of what is probably the oldest human in the world, a baby of 700,000 years...
...three of America's oldest and finest universities tomorrow is more than just the day the Yankees play the Giants again, or the Japs slaughter the Chinese. Other exciting but more progressive events will be holding the center of the stage. For tomorrow Yale, Williams, and Cornell will induct new presidents into office with fitting ceremonies and with high expectations of continuing to develop all that is best in educational circles...
...speech on the history of the group, Dana Durand said that the Harvard Mountaineering Club is one of the oldest in the country, founded about 15 years ago, and the oldest such college organization. Dartmouth started one a few years...
...Oldest college symphony orchestra in this nation, the Pierian Sodality of 1808 is now announcing its annual fall tryouts open to all members of the University who can play on any stringed, woodwind, brass, or percussion instrument...