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...other members of the committee are: Borace Bowker of Hewlett, L. I., New York; Roger Sherman Coolidge of Boston; Henry Wilder Foote Jr. of Cambridge; Henry Bigelow Jackson of Milton; Richard Noel Lord of Lawrence; Richard Frothingham O'Neil Jr. of Boston; Harrison Musgrave Jr. of Saginaw, Michigan; James Walker Tufts of Pinehurst, N. C.; Lee Yates Ward of Rochester, N. Y.; and Enrique Carlos Zanett of Washington...
...some of his best passages, is after all essentially conservative. He is fond of forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses to rise to heights of impassioned and inspired defense of Socialistic ideals. But he has made the choice and they must...
...20th Century came and eternal harmonies continued to vibrate in the mind of the Bishop. He could not fully utter them. His talk became a little wild. Men did not love one another utterly. His talk became wilder, and began to grate upon vestrymen and other bishops with bank accounts. At a general meeting, in Boston, he was nearly mobbed. Finally his health broke, and in 1912 he resigned, went to live in Galion, Ohio, the Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, ex-Bishop of Arkansas...
...collection is the result of work during the last three or four years by the Peabody Museum's representatives in the field. Due to the inroads of civilization in the wilder parts of the continent this material is fast disappearing. For example, as Mr. Willoughby pointed out, when a native secures a tin can of any kind from white men, it is likely to replace the utensil that he formerly fashioned from wood or metal for himself...
...Jubilee Advisory Committee will act as mentors to the Freshman Jubilee Committee next spring. In addition to F. L. Barton, Chairman, the members are as follows: Harold Robertson Jones of Kansas City, Missouri; Henry Parish 2nd of New York City; Robert Morgan Parker of Providence, Rhode Island; John Wilder Perkins of Hampton. New Hampshire; and William Thomas Reid 3rd of Brookline