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Throughout the world, on the same night this week, Y. M. C. A.s sponsored similar fire rituals. Broadcast to them all, from the World's Fair, went a speech on "Youth in Tomorrow's World," by Attorney General Frank Murphy, a devout Roman Catholic who is no more averse to helping the Y. M. C. A. than to endorsing the Oxford Group (see p. 54). All this smoke, fire and warm sentiment celebrated the Y. M. C. A.'s 95th anniversary...
Last month in Manhattan, parsnip-nosed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman launched in the U. S. the latest campaign of his Oxford Groupers-Moral Re-Armament (TIME, May 22). Last week Dr. Buchman sought to sell MRA to the nation's Capital. To the Washington Star he sounded off in the copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed...
...Benjamin Franklin and the first Roman Catholic bishop in the U. S., Georgetown is the oldest U. S. Catholic college. For the occasion President O'Leary staged elaborate ceremonies, gathered many a bigwig for kudos and speeches (among them: Speaker William B. Bankhead, U. S. Attorney-General Frank Murphy, head G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, American Bar Association President Frank J. Hogan). To President O'Leary and the 7,000 other celebrants came an Apostolic Blessing from Pope Pius...
Wisconsin's students are fun-loving, friendly, athletic, many of them farm bred. Wisconsin's Clarence Addison Dykstra, 56, is serious, hardworking, cold, a political fencesitter. Arriving at Wisconsin two years ago to clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally...
Progressive educators rate Quaker, co-educational Swarthmore as the No. 1 U. S. college, Frank Aydelotte as the ablest U. S. college president. Little Swarthmore aspires to cultivate its students' emotions and morals as well as their minds, is a good all around institution. Aydelotte, 58, a onetime Rhodes scholar, golfs in the low 80s, is a whiz at money raising, loved by his students, a good all around...