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...There was a time during my stay in Formosa when I thought of murdering those active gentlemen, the buglers of Taipei. I stayed in a hostel near a Chinese army post. Naturally, the post has buglers. Chinese buglers are not to be compared with any others of my experience. They do not content themselves with blowing reveille in the morning and going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then...
American Youth Hostels will participate in two International Hostel Work Projects, one in Holland and one in Germany. Three or four weeks on rebuilding war-damaged youth hostels will be followed by a self-planned group hostling trip in neighboring countries...
...each hostel a student library with basic text books and general works must be installed. Financial support in the way of scholarships is also offered: and the refugees are taught handicrafts so that they may have a feeling of independence and security through part-time employment...
...students on the ships, like labor, can roughly be divided into the Organized and the Unorganized. The Organized were the ones on planned group tours and projects, such as the many Youth Hostel and NSA tours. There were also the people on the Experiment in International Living, who spent part of their summer living with foreign families, Friends Service Committee workers headed for reconstruction camps, and a sprinkling of Budapest Festival delegates. Each little group held its own meetings too, which added to the confusion...
...Christmas Eve. All through 1950, Roman Catholic pilgrims from every corner of the world will journey to Rome, hoping thereby to earn a plenary indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for forgiven sins). Authorities expect at least a million pilgrim visitors to Rome. To help house the throng, a large hostel is being built near the Vatican, and others on the city's outskirts. The Men's International Association for Catholic Action has set up a nonprofit organization called Felix Roma, to arrange tours allowing each pilgrim ten days in Italy (seven in Rome and three on sightseeing side...