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...entertaining to wonder whether the four hundred followers of the Reverend Frank Buchman found copies of the current New Yorker in the living room when they gathered on Saturday for a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. The portrait of Mr. Buchman and the exposition of the strange garments in which he clothes religion, as presented in the New Yorker's columns, might have made members of "The First Century Christian Fellowship" feel rather like a little girl at the terrible moment when her birthday doll turns out to be only nasty sawdust inside...
...utmost in order to accommodate the entire assemblage. Students will descend upon Providence from 25 eastern colleges: from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Brown, Dartmouth, Colby, Salem Normal, Vermont, Rhode Island State, Connecticut College for Women, Boston University, Springfield, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, Pembroke, Wheaton, Pine Manor, Massachusetts State, Clark, and Tufts
...Martial music receded as the frontier was driven back, and life in Georgia took on a richer note. Master workmen from over the sea built manor houses of English brick, and English airs were sung to the plucked melodies of harpsichords in great colonial halls...
...manor born...
From Greenwich busses will convey the players to Briarcliff Lodge at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., 20 miles from West Point and on the other side of the Hudson. A light practice on the Lodge grounds is scheduled for 4.15. Saturday morning the party will cross the Bear Mountain Bridge to arrive at the Military Academy at 12.15, with lunch at Greystone Manor. After the game busses will leave from the field at 5.30, connecting with a special train which will bring the squad to Cambridge, Saturday night...