Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commencement activities will start June 16, with a luncheon in Memorial Hall instead of the traditional formal banquet...
Since the Thanksgiving banquet, students and teachers at Georgia's tiny Piedmont College (enrollment: 300) had been wondering what President James E. Walter was up to. That day, he invited Major General George Van Horn Moseley, 76-year-old trumpeter for Aryan supremacy, to speak in the college dining hall. Later, reports got around that Piedmont was getting $500 checks from the educational foundation of which Moseley is head. The money behind the foundation comes from Moseley's old friend, Judge George W. Armstrong of Texas...
Father Ganson F. Ryan wrote a letter to the Syracuse College paper last week explaining why he asked University officials there to withdraw Mather's invitation to speak at an inter-faith banquet three weeks...
Ryan called Mather a "pedant" whom the priest believed was "unqualified to be presented at the banquet." "However competent this man may be as a geologist," he continued, "he lacks any concept whatsoever of the evil forces that are engulfing the world and bringing suffering and death to tens and thousands of American kids in Korea...
...Here and There," a column written by Jesse Lowen concerning events at other colleges, described Mather as a "self-admitted former Communist" in a discussion of Mather's cancelled speech to a Syracuse University Chapel Banquet and his subsequent speech to over 2,000 in the college chapel Sunday, February...