Word: arbor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This brain trust met at a conference of the New Education Fellowship, 26-year-old international organization of Progressive Educators, convening for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. Ann Arbor, bright with intense sunshine and the chatter of 1,800 delegates from 22 nations, had a Geneva flavor. At the last moment the Fellowship learned that its president, Finland's Laurin Zilliacus, had been detained. He cabled enigmatically from Finland: LEAVING FOR THE FRONT. . . . STILL BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY...
Such was the background of Dr. Schairer's conference in Ann Arbor last week. Basic assumption in his group's discussions: at war's end Hitlerism will be defeated and Europe will be chaotic. Not ready to plump for the Danish scheme, the brain trust nevertheless favored a decentralized economic system, held that electrification would make it possible to disperse industry. At week's end, they announced their plan...
...Arbor, Mich...
John A. Bradshaw, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, member of the Glee Club, secretary of the Harvard Classical Club, who is concentrating in classics and sociology, and will attend the Graduate School of Enginering...
...LaRue, of Ann Arbor, Mich., '39, currently a travelling fellow in Music, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, won the Bohemian Club Prize, awarded for the best essay on musical composition for one or two instruments. LaRue wrote a Suite for Clarinet and Piano...