Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore, hurled thoughtful society into profound discouragement and disillusion. Must all the intellectual battles of the last century be fought again? Does each age have to dig up old problems, solved long since, to add to the host of contemporary questions and feuds? Is it possible that a great mass, perhaps the majority of citizens of this so-called enlightened country in this day and age still believe in the literal interpretation of the account of creation in Genesis...
...Swampscott, Mass., is expecting a lively summer once the President arrives there late in June: for the Mayflower will anchor at Marblehead, the Italian Ambassador will be situated at Beverly Farms, the German Ambassador at Magnolia, the Siamese legation at Bass Rocks and members of the British Embassy (Sir Esmé Howard will be abroad) at Manchester...
...years, the voices were unremarkable, the conducting was scholarly rather than inspired, the orchestration adequate rather than brilliant. As in other years, all who listened were impressed with the earnest intelligence of the performers, the remarkable community spirit that made the festival possible. Next day, Bach's famed Mass in B minor was given as a finale. Once again Bethlehem's choralists surmounted the immense technical difficulties of the score...
Died. Louis A. Coolidge, 64, prominent Republican, onetime (1888-91) private Secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1908-09), President of the Coolidge Family Association (1920- 23), contributor of an article on the Republican party to the Encyclopedia Americana; in Milton, Mass., of sclerosis of the liver...
Grave in her ceremonial robes, Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College (Wellesley, Mass.), walked between the long double ranks of white-gowned Wellesley freshmen. It was Founders Day and a great anniversary because its number was 50. Behind President Pendleton walked other college presidents almost as numerous as the years they were celebrating-43. Speeches, honorary degrees, a semicentennial address by Dr. Angell of Yale on the increased obligation of U. S. educators to rear men and women for "social progress." In Memorial Chapel, a tinted window was dedicated to "The Founders" and "their beloved...