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...Public School Murder was the name of a book which youthful Headmaster Elliott Speer loaned in 1934 to Dean Thomas Edwin Elder of the Mount Hermon School for Boys at Northfield, Mass. In the story, the victim was killed by a prowler who fired a gun through a window...
...cool night of Sept. 14 that year Headmaster Speer was alone in his study reading, when someone crept up to the window, fired a murderous volley of buck shot into him, disappeared. Self-possessed Dean Elder became one of the most interesting to press and public of the 63 witnesses who testified at the Speer in quest. Mysterious it was too that Mr. Speer's two big dogs had not barked, as they presumably would have if an un known intruder had made his way through the school's heavily wooded grounds. Because the villain of The Public...
...John McDowell, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., onetime pupil at Northfield's Mount Hermon School for Boys which Dwight Moody founded. Among men who will help Dr. McDowell in arranging Moody celebrations are Dr. John R. Mott and Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, prime exponents of the evangelism for which East Northfield stands today; Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, who as a Cambridge student was converted by Evangelist Moody; Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who was inspired to work as a medical missionary in Labrador by the U. S. man of God; Dwight Moody...
Though Fundamentalists repeatedly talk of a Presbyterian "machine," few speak up in meeting to give it a name and address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last...
Mount Hermon. "Who killed Elliott Speer?" was just as baffling a question last week as it was on the evening when a fatal volley of buckshot spattered through the study window of the headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys (TIME, Sept. 24). Police of Northfield, Mass., had scoured every foot of the campus. A local judge had held a secret, ten-day inquest, examined 63 witnesses, only to report that young Headmaster Speer had died by the hand of "a person unknown." Last week Mount Hermon's trustees got down to the business of picking...