Baccalaureate Sermon Urges Narrow Path for Central High Seniors
Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson delivers the baccalaureate at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church as about 150 Central High School seniors in caps and gowns hear a sermon on Matthew 7 14. He contrasts hard work and self reliance with easy shortcuts in study athletics and life. Prayer precedes the addressed remarks by Rev. Edwin Hey Delk.
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Prominent Speakers to Attend Lafayette Commencement
Easton Pa June 8 The Rev Ethelbert Dudley Warfield president of Lafayette College is ill from overwork and will not attend commencement events. Alumni from the classes of 87 77 and 62 will gather as scheduled with speakers including Rev Drs Eckels Gilland Moore S A Martin and the ethnologist Frederick Starr and State Treasurer Frank G Harris who will preside.
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Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
Lafayette College
Horace Lehr
Drs. Eckels
Philadelphia
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Shamokin
F. H. Moore
Delaware
S. A. Martin
Wilson College
Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Frank G. Harris
Harrisburg
The Bethlehem Pulpit to Replace Warfield at Lafayette
The Rev. Dr. John R. Davies will deliver Lafayette College’s bac calaureate sermon next Sunday in place of the ailing Presi dent Warfield. Rev H M Vogelsonger, newly elected assistant to preach today at Middlespring Church, will fill the Bethlehem pulpit next week. The Central Pennsylvania College commencements run June 20 to 26 with Aaron E Gabble delivering the baccalaureate on June 22. Franklin and Marshall College also held its baccalaureate today with Rev Dr J S Staler delivering a splendid address.
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New Berlin
Central Pennsylania College
Aaron E. Gabble
United Evangelical Church
True Religion Shapes Honest Graduates
James 1 27 discusses religious nature and its manifestation. Dr. Stahr urges graduates to cultivate true honest consecrated manhood, rooted in their professed religion, to set an example for successors.
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Princeton President Compares Life at College and Wall Street
Special to The Philadelphia Times from Princeton N J June 8 The baccalaureate sermon by President Patton opened the Princeton commencement ceremony. He contrasted university training with business temptations and urged faithful Christian schooling as the best for forming conscience. He noted fewer entering the ministry, calling it an age of intellectual transition and doubt. The Philadelphia Society annual meeting was held at Marquand Chapel tonight.
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Ursinus College Seeks 200000 Endowment Backed by Gifts
During the thirty second commencement Ursinus College plans a new endowment fund of 200000 dollars with 50000 dollars already pledged. President Spangler delivered the baccalaureate sermon on Fidelity and Its Rewards urging funds to education and charity. Class day events and junior oratorical contest set for this afternoon with later board and alumni meetings, Ruby Memorial unveiling, and a 2 PM commencement address by Rev Wayland Hoyt followed by an open air concert and baseball game.
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Cold baths urged to curb intemperance at Columbia
Bishop Burgess in a baccalaureate sermon at Columbia University and Barnard College argued that cold baths train the body to resist life’s temptations and temperance demons. He urged eliminating mercenary interests from athletics and prizes should be honor based, not money driven.
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Conwell Preaches at Temple College Baccalaureate
Dr. Russell H. Conwell, president of Temple College and pastor of Grace Baptist Church, delivered the baccalaureate sermon to Temple College graduates and friends. He eulogized John Harrison the ship chronometer inventor, highlighting love over reward and the moral of perseverance. Wilmington Military Academy held commencement week with a service at Grace Methodist Church as cadets arrived in uniform.
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Judge accused of bad faith over Delaware College strike
Chief Justice Lore and Delaware College trustees faced editorial charges of bad faith in the Delaware College Review. The dispute arose after the faculty suspended six hazers, prompting a meeting where the Chief Justice and parents urged students to return to studies amid unclear promises on punishment redaction.
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Lore
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Delaware College Review
Testimony in Ward 28 School Scandal Conflicts Exposed
Five men challenged George Sterr Jr on claims at the elementary schools committee hearing. Budding contradictions emerged from J Burwood Daly Supervising Principal W W Brown and Harry S Ludlam against Sterr with denials from Lewis Hubbs Henry Edmunds and others.
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Beef Trust Burns All Incriminating Papers
New York reports that under Arthur Colby's orders the Beef Trust branches in New York Brooklyn and Jersey City burned black lists ticker tapes and memo books tied to credit and cartage agreements. Swift & Co collectors ferried papers to 138 Ninth Street Jersey City and incinerated them under watch. Trust managers fear arrest amid Judge Chester injunction and possible further action by Attorney General Davies as trade declines about 30 percent.
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Franklin and Marshall College Commencement Debates
The sixty sixth annual commencement opened with a senior prize debate in the chapel before a large audience. The affirmative speakers were E. B. Lamar and A. L. Yoder, Lancaster, and the negative speakers J. F. Buchheit, Lancaster, and J. F. Frankenfeld, Haycock Run Bucks. Judges D. McMullen Rev. E. C. Griffiths and James D. Law. Buchheit won first prize. Lamar second. German prize went to William R. Weaver and Charles E. Roth.
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Forty Carpenters Strike in Lansdowne Local 845
Forty carpenters from the Carpenters' Union of Clifton Heights walked out in Lansdowne on Saturday in response to a union order. Members of Local No. 845 were instructed not to begin work on any building in the Lansdowne area after the notice was issued, per a guarantee seal.
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Juvenile Names and Addresses Listed in Local Notice
A district notice lists Rosse Hawkins aged nine living at 4660 Linmore Street and Juve John Cuthbertson aged sixteen at 1614 Wyllie Street with dates since June 7. Names John Beck and others appear with partial addresses including 665 North Park and Park Avenue.
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Services Continue At Broad Street Church After Fire
Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church at Broad and Carpenter streets held services despite last week’s robbery and fire damage. Rev. Henry Hess preached on gaining from loss. Sunday school children performed in the basement. Detectives hunt for the thief who torched the church and may try to pawn stolen gold and silver communion service. Police guard the church to prevent further arson.
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Asbury Church Celebrates Diamond Jubilee in Chestnut
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church marked 75 years with morning services led by Rev. J. G. Bickerton and a congregational gift of more than 1200 dollars. An 8 pm platform meeting featured addresses by Rev. William Major and others and an original poem. The Sunday School jubilee preceded the event with remarks by H. A. Smedley praising 75 years of church work.
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Silver plate saves man after daring spinal operation
James Mullen, 21, survived a seven vertebra fracture at Coney Island. Surgeons at Kings County Hospital lifted the fractured vertebra from the spinal cord and replaced it with a silver plate without ether. Mullen remained conscious and assisted as doctors placed the plate to protect nervous tissue. outcome awaited.
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Lewis Nixon To Head A Shipyard Combine
A $25 million shipyard combine with five major yards including Bath Iron Works Crescent Shipyards Newport News Shipbuilding Union Iron Works and Harlan Hollingsworth moves toward underwriting bonds. Lewis Nixon of Crescent Shipyards will head the consolidation with other backers J J McCormick H B Huntington Irving M Scott and Henry Poor. The yards will be jointly managed to build all ship classes at lower costs while competing with foreign builders.
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United States
Murder at German squatters settlement ends in tragedy
In a moonlit early morning quarrel at a 56 acre German squatters settlement near Second street woods Julius Miller 43 shot Gustave Reim 32 through the heart after a knife duel and exchange of blows Miller and Reim had argued and fought in a shanty with Miller later firing into the air. Reim was killed and Miller wounded but alive under police guard at a hospital. Miller’s housekeeper and two daughters were held as witnesses.
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Bryan Declines Governor Candidacy in Fusion Context
In Lincoln Nebraska on June 8 William J Bryan says he cannot be a candidate for Governor. He states he can do more in national politics and will not block Democrats and fusion supporters who back him. He notes many others can unite fusion strength and urges another to take the Governor's office.
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Denver High School Hayrack Accident Report
Word reached here last night that a Denver High School hayrack party near Morrison Col., seventeen miles west, had an accident. Several students were severely injured and one or more were seriously hurt or killed.
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