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...nothing. When an isolated radio station high in Telemark kept broadcasting the fugitive Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...
John Daniels Jr., New York City, B. A., 1937, Dartmouth College; holder of a Justin Smith Scholarship and active in the Young Democratic Club, the League Against War and Fascism, the Dartmouth Union, the Junto, and the Dartmouth Players...
...Economics department attempted to sponsor a similar program on contemporary problems. Lectures by Professor Leffler and Professor Rice on banking and agriculture were well attended, and appreciated. Were these lectures to be thrown open to all faculty departments, the logical organization to manage the program would be The Junto. The president of that organization expressed his willingness to cooperate. Several professors likewise contacted, also believed that these weekly "classes" would be an asset to the college...
...into near-scrapes over women. "Thus his moral renovation began. Like a good Bostonian, he gave moral lectures to others to cure himself." In 1726 he returned to Philadelphia, went to work in earnest. Soon he was a figure in the community: founded a club (the Junto), married, joined...
First of U. S. learned societies, also Franklin-founded, was the Junto (1727). As the Junto was the ancestor of the Useful Knowledge group, each one of the present society's 436 members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple indeed were the questions propounded to the Junto's applicants for membership. The first was typical of candor in the City of Brotherly Love: Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Do you sincerely believe that you love mankind in general? Do you love truth for truth...