Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Congress to build a great Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul on Mount Saint Alban, highest spot (400 ft.) in Washington. It was this Cathedral, they decided, which should fulfill George Washington's plan, become the U. S. Westminster Abbey. This week eminent Episcopalians and national officials were to gather to open for public worship the first sizable unit on Mount Saint Alban...
...thrilled last week to read about Thomas Walsh Jr. of Chicago, a student who gave his life for his Ph.D. Chemistry Student Walsh and his friend Harold Foard of West Virginia left Huanuco, Peru in November to explore the unknown headwaters of the Paute River in Southern Ecuador, to gather data for Walsh's doctorate. For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York's Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp...
Each year, delegates gather from about a dozen Eastern colleges to foster interest in poetry; it is believed that only through proper oral rendition can poetry achieve its ultimate possibilities as a means of real enjoyment. It is the purpose of the Convention to bring about an improvement in that direction. The program consists in a series of five-minute recitations of poetry by the delegates, each of whom selects his own part...
That the student delegation was prejudiced on its entrance into Kentucky, is quite probable; most of its members already had formed opinions and were eager merely to gather evidence in support of them. But the charge of the county authorities that they are Communists is patently ridiculous, and quite beside the point. Regardless of their political convictions, they have an obvious right to investigate industrial conditions in any part of the country. The fatuous finger-wagging of the Kentucky authorities proves nothing except that Kentucky is a near-neighbor of Tennessee...
...reasons for Lowell's notoriety is the ineluctable High Table. Here the Master, the tutors, and their guests gather every Monday evening to have dinner before the rest of the House. Now that the tradition is firmly established and no longer excites wonder or derision it is much more pleasant, at least for those who sit on the dais. But those seated humbly below have no opportunity for conversation with any distinguished men who may be present. However, it is planned in the future to have some of these men go to the Student's Common Room to talk informally...