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April 28-May 3-Biennial convention of the National League of Women Voters; at Louisville...
...branch of education. Now even remote little schools have their special music teachers, their glee clubs, orchestras, bands, unusual opportunities to hear concerts by professionals. To discuss these comparatively recent developments and to compare achievements, there met last week in Chicago some 7,400 music supervisors for the Second Biennial National Conference. Superintendent William. J. Bogan of the Chicago Public Schools spoke. So did Conference President Mabelle Glenn, music supervisor in Kansas City, Mo., and Vice President George H. Gartlan, music supervisor in Manhattan. Conductor Walter Damrosch talked proudly of his radio classes (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) which numbered some...
...Poling sailed last week for Europe, where he will superintend preparations for the Eighth World's Christian Endeavor Convention to be held in Berlin next August. Similar conventions have heretofore been irregular (the last was in London in 1926) ; hereafter they are intended to be biennial. To Berlin will go representatives of 34 national Christian Endeavor organizations, including from 700 to 1,000 delegates from the U. S. Theme of the convention, at which Dr. Poling will preside: "The Challenge of Christ to Modern Youth." Topics to be emphasized: international goodwill, citizenship, evangelism...
...biennial dance held by the Harvard Union in honor of the Yale-Harvard football game will take place this evening from 10 until 3 o'clock. The music for the party will again be furnished by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a delegation from the Yale Glee Club has, as in former years, been invited to be present at the entertainment...
...Kyoto, still the citadel of Buddhist culture, came three smart sons last week. They were John Davison Rockefeller III; Malcolm MacDonald, scion of Britain's peace-potent, peripatetic Prime Minister; and Lady Nancy Astor's studious William. Came also some 200 other notables to the third biennial session of the Institute of Pacific Relations...