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...Lake Placid School, the Chestnut Hill Academy). He had been working with Navajos for more than nine years. At Brigham City he lost no time getting the wheels turning. Within six months, with a $3,700,000 appropriation, he had remodeled every room in the hospital, built a gymnasium and seven other new buildings, organized a staff of 130. By January, George Boyce was ready for his first pupils at Intermountain Indian School...
What separates Russia and the U.S. "is a moral issue of the clearest nature," he told 8,000 intent teachers and students jammed into the University of California's cavernous men's gymnasium-and another 2,000 who sprawled on the grass outside, listening to booming loudspeakers. "It cannot be evaded. Let us make no mistake about it." The West was now, and would always be, at odds with a philosophy which claimed "a monopoly of the knowledge of what was right and what was wrong for human beings . . . Yet it does not follow from this that...
Bell quotes a letter received recently from a friend who had moved to a new parish: "The church here has everything, from an exquisite chapel to a gymnasium and a manual-training shop for young Episcopalians to enjoy themselves in. There is money all over the place . . . It's impressive all right; but ... it seems more like a social club." There are many such rich parishes, writes Bell, in which Christ is genteelly revered and His upsetting utterances muffled. "The vulgarity of the Gospels is concealed by the quaintness of the King James version; the dynamite of the Eucharist...
...Eliot House squash team that has built up a season total of 12 wins and two losses meets the Yale intramural champions, Jonathan Edwards College, at 3 p.m. today in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...HAVEN, March 12--"The home-court advantage" of New Haven's Payne Whitney Gymnasium proved just sufficient, by the narrowest possible margin, to enable Yale's basketball team to eke out a photo finish, one point revenge over the Crimson quintet Saturday night...