Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the reason for the crime wave? Some officials blame it on "mass-production" education, others on the fact that some of the new colleges and universities are really phony institutions, interested mainly in student fees. Whatever the cause, prewar respect for learning and authority has dwindled; a frightening number of young criminals offer no other explanation for their acts than that they were out "just for thrills." In the first four months of 1957, the number of students arrested topped 2,500. This spring police found that university students were the masterminds behind three large juvenile gangs...
...enthusiasts maintain that the results of Graham's other big-city crusades have been tangible, if hard to measure. Says Presbyterian Minister and Author Dan Poling: "What about the entire history of Christianity since St. Peter preached at Pentecost? ... Is not Christianity itself the direct result of evangelism, mass evangelism included...
Sunday Vespers for July will begin at Memorial Church at 8 P.M. on the 7th with The Reverend Arthur R. McKay, President of McCormick Theology Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, preaching, followed on July 14 by The Reverend Gordon M. Torgersen of the First Baptist Church, Worcester, Mass. On July 21 Professor Chandran Devanesen, Madras Christian College Madras, India, will preach. The Reverend Ferdinand Denbeaux of Wellesley College will preach on July...
...architecture competition, 14 New England structures were chosen from a field of sixty. The judges hit the nail on the head by making the Award to Anderson, Beckwith & Haible (Boston) for the magnificent Office Building for Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company in Waltham, Mass.; and by singing out for commendation the Brandeis University Interfaith Center in Waltham, and the Tokeneke Elementary School in Darien, Conn...
...Arranged by Norman Fletcher, it included 32 large panels of photographs and descriptive commentaries of representative milestones (some no longer extant) in New England architecture, including Harvard's Sever Hall (by H.H. Richardson), Lowell House (by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott), and a proposed new city plan for Spring-field, Mass. by students in the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Much of the excellent photography in the exhibit was done by the renowned Samuel Chamberlain (which reminds me that it might be a good idea to include a photography competition in next year's Arts Festival...