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Before the speechifying started, the Bowl audience was entertained by a lively, two-hour amateur musical show called The Good Road, in which 160 Buchmanites skillfully compounded propaganda for "God-control" from such various elements as Swiss yodelers, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, Washington, the Magna Carta, a G.I. on Okinawa, and an average family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Change the World | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Quoting Cicero, DiMento, who is receiving a magna in Greek, said that the man elected must have "wisdom," "integrity," and "valor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DiMento, Passer, Kerans Give Latin, English Talks in Morning Exercises | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

Another crewman, Richard Stockton Emmet, Jr. '46 of Glen Head, Long Island and Winthrop House received the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize. Emmet is magna cum laude in History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Gain Foreign Study Scholarships | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

Coolidge graduated from the College magna cum laude in 1935. The following year he studied architecture at Columbia and then spent two years teaching art at Vassar. In 1939 New York University gave him an A.M. in Fine Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Gets Fogg Museum Director Post | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

...unification? It is not actually a continent; it is a relatively small peninsula of vast Eurasia. It is marked off from Asia not by geography but by its heritage: Greek art and intellect, Roman law and government, the Christian religion. It is the heir to England's Magna Charta, to France's cathedrals (and France's revolution), Italy's Renaissance and Germany's Reformation, to Don Quixote, the Divina Commedia, the Nordic sagas. Lacking a fixed geographical border, it has included the Slavs and Magyars of Eastern Europe when they chose to accept the European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Toward a United Europe | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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