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CESAR AND CLEOPATRA-Shaw jibes at the ancients through the accomplished sound boxes of the Theatre Guild and Helen Hayes...
Brown is Fine Arts, from the leather jerkin or apron of a guild artisan...
...Committee has presented the following: President, C. S. Bolster '15; Secretary, R. A. Lutz '23; Treasurer, F. F. Collier '99; Council, F. R. Hall '72, A. R. MacKusick '99, G. R. Ford '01, P. H. Shinn '01; Honorary Vice-Presidents, E. S. Dodge '73, F. E. Cabot '80. Courtenay Guild '86, W. R. Spalding '87, James Loeb '88, Nicholas Longworth '91, F. T. Hammond '92, Howard Coonley '99, Malcolm Nichols '99, E. B. Terhune '99, James Jackson '04, A. T. Davison...
...taxi-drivers guild, "The Federation of Operating Associations," which represents 8,000 cab-operators. Reports were recited of how cabmen, roused to fury by the cards, conversed in doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs...
However, outside the older societies, a religious revival grew up spontaneously in the local centres of life and became universal with remarkable rapidity. It even penetrates the commercial organizations of the country so thoroughly indeed that the travelling "agents provocateurs" of the various merchant guilds revived the Rule of the Mendicant Friars in all save one respect, while the guild Chambers of each district devoted a large part of their interests and revenues to philanthropic activities. The old inns were transformed into Churches of Community Service and richly endowed, so that their previous functions became almost incidental. Wayside shrines, often...