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PERSONALIA

D R. WELLS THOMS, under appointment to the Arabian Mission, ■A
was married at Tarrytown, N. Y., on July 5th to Miss Ethel T.
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Seudder, a daughter of Rev. Lewis R. Scudder of the Arcot ft
Mission and for four years herself a member of that Mission. t
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Dr. and Mrs. Thoms expect to go to Arabia at the end of this year. \
Rev. E. E. Calverley arrived in New York, June 10th, after consider­
able detention in Cairo on account of illness that delayed his journey. k
Dr. Calverley joined Mrs. Calverley and the children, who arrived last '■!
year, at their home in York, Pa. ;;
Dr. Paul W. Harrison, with his four children, arrived in New York,
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May 26th. Soon after his arrival Dr. Harrison was invited to the Com-’ [:
mencement at Yale University, where he received the degree of Master
of Arts, with the following citation:
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Paul Wilblrforce Harrison, Master of Arts: Scientist
and humanitarian, Yale University recognizes in your career the
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rare combination of high skill in a most difficult calling, where .
science and art converge, with unselfish devotion to the needs of
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a backward and ill-served people.
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Dr. and Mrs. C. S. G. Mylrca have recently relurned to Loudon, a
very unexpected journey so soon after their furlough, made necessary by
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the serious condition of Dr. Mylrca’s health. He is receiving treatment
at the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Dr. and Mrs. Mylrca hope
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to return to Kuwait, their station in Arabia, in the early fall.
Miss Fanny Lutton arrived in New York early in July on her regular
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furlough and in anticipation of retirement from the mission field, where
she has given twenty-six years of notable service as a missionary. s
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Dr. Margaret Rottschaefer arrived in New York on her furlough late fl
in March. She is spending the summer with her relatives in Michigan. *;
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The Misses Ruth and Rachel Jackson and Miss Cornelia Dulctiherg
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are making a short stay in America during the summer months, having %
traveled by a speedy route recently opened between Baghdad and
New Yprk.
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