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Last week Mr. Taft issued an announcement of the 31st biennial session of the General Unitarian Conference, to be held in Cleveland, Oct. 13 to 15. In 1865 the American Unitarian Association gave birth to the National Unitarian Conference, and this year these two bodies are to be reunited in a general reorganization of the Church...
...German, a Persian. Americans were there. Colonials from Canada, India, Rhodesia, were there; swarthy sons, also, of Spain and of Hayti. Almost all pedagogs, they awaited the gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, indicative of the opening of the second biennial conference of the World Federation of Educational Associations. Founded in the U. S. in 1923 (TIME, July 2, 9, 16, 1923), headed by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas of Maine, this body promotes world peace by congregating, for handshakes, headshakes and joint resolve, the educators of the world...
Five days before their biennial meet against the combined Harvard-Yale track team, the athletes of Oxford, of Cambridge, landed in the U. S. on wobbly sea-legs...
...Cincinnati, last week, was held the 26th biennial music festival, one of the oldest, most thriving traditions of its kind in the U. S. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, directed by Franz van der Stuckin, a festival chorus, a children's chorus of 300 thin but adeptly trained voices procured from the local free schools, several famed singers, participated. Large and earnest audiences turned out for the proceedings. On the opening day, the assemblage (some 4,000) rose and sang America. After this rousing start, Sir Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius...
...fourth biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America, in Chicago assembled, had read to it a Coolidge greeting: "As I study the three great movements of humanity into the American Colonies-the Puritans into New England, the Lutherans and Quakers into Pennsylvania, and the Cavaliers into Virginia...