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...young people of America a program which is bright, entertaining, full of hope, promise, and vision. . ." It sounds like another Call-To-Action from professor Dewey's Youth a Movement factory, or perhaps it is the National Student's League gone suddenly articulate. But it comes from Mrs. Magna in Washington, and unless you know Mrs. Magna and what she represents you will be utterly taken in. It does sound like a call to revolution but it cannot be, coming as it does from the President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...Henry III and Magna Carta," Professor McIlwain, Harvard...
...statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except on the jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat in itself; on the strength of her masterly thesis Authoress Gilfillan has graduated magna cum laude. The mining town she picked, more or less at random, was a huddle of shacks she calls "Avelonia," about 35 miles from Pittsburgh. Under cover of darkness she arrived in a hired car, knocked at a house that looked less dilapidated than most and asked...
...Magna Carta," Professor McIlwaine, Harvard...
...Junior year he broadened out, joined Signet, helped found Harvard's chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma chemical fraternity. Delta Upsilon made him its president. In 1913, aged 20 and a year ahead of his class, he was graduated magna cum lande with a brilliant record in chemistry...