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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization will substitute in lieu of participation in the Northfield gathering, an individual Harvard conference, to be held in the fall for students in the University. This was tried for the first time last fall, when 50 or 60 members of the various representative organizations gathered at Cedar Hill for a week-end discussion of practical problems that arose within the University. It was this conference that ultimately led to the sweeping reorganization of the Brooks House, that is felt in the present new move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. ACTIVITIES TO DROP FEATURE | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...Buffalo, five policemen were needed last week to handle traffic on the roads near Pine Hill cemetery. Reason: ghastly-ghostly voices and music were issuing from a tomb. Amateur sleuths at length discovered that the horrid sounds, refracted by the marble mausoleum, were echoes from a radio loudspeaker in front of a distant shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...small iron bench in the Pincian Hill gardens slept a holy man. His breviary had fallen from his lap to the grassy turf. Children gravely gathered beside him, for it seemed to them there could be no mistaking the man's grey hair, his glasses, his still, regular features. "Is it he?" whispered one to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: FIRST STEP | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Down the Pincian Hill with cassock billowing behind him fled the holy one, now thoroughly alarmed. He was only a humble Benedictine monk, but so strongly did he resemble Pius XI that, unconvinced by his protests, one of the children reverently picked up and treasured the little breviary lying on the ground. In humble Roman homes it is now fully believed that the Pope's first step into the great world since his "liberation," was in the simple quality and disguise of a lowly monk and for the gentle purpose of dozing on a park bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: FIRST STEP | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Last week in The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., there were no students. But in their dispersed homes where they were passing their Easter vacation, the students thought often of their school. For to The Hill two great things had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hobby Hall | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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