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...Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin in his speech at the quadruple funeral. The service was held in a scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn-singing, which included this chant: We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, Workers in the mill. Chief preacher was Cicero Queens, a gnarled little old man from 60 miles away in the mountains. While the men sat immovable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Blood | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Hymn of Jesus--Holst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINGERS TO INTRODUCE FOUR NEW COMPOSITIONS | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

Another interesting feature of this year's program is a concert in Symphony Hall on Thursday, December 12 in which 70 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Harvard Glee Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society to present a program among whose numbers will be "The Hymn to Jesus" by the modern composer, Gustave Holst, whose work has never before been open to the Boston public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB MAKES PLANS FOR SEASONS CONCERTS | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Voohnmad Sirs: Surely the signature to the enclosed is ficticious. Spell it backward and consider the result in connection witht he context of the letter. It cannot be merely a coincidence. It smacks of the recent Harvard hymn. I hope you didn't print it knowingly. M. L. HAVEY New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...distinction of having Banker Morgan among its visitors mitigated and contrasted with the ignominy of another Harvard occurrence last week. The Senior class had elected one Edward Fuller Fitzhugh Jr., of Boise, Idaho, to write the Baccalaureate hymn. That was a sad selection for Harvard. Poet Fitzhugh wrote four quatrains of lofty, Harvardian sentiment to be sung to the tune of "Ancient of Days." The lines were published. Not until then, last week, was it discovered that the first letters of the lines in each quatrain spelled a four-letter word. The first two words were the same, an unprintable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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