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With special attention to the development of Europe's "New Architecture" and its relation to modern building in the United States, an architectural field trip will be conducted by the University Summer School through northern Europe from July 3 to August 23, this summer...
...Northern Baptists. Most famed president the Northern Baptist Convention ever elected was Charles Evans Hughes (1908). Last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall met 5,000 Northern Baptist dele gates under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark...
Maintenance activity on the Northern front yesterday indicated that the University may be facing another insect war. Reports that a herd of termites had been seen entering the Yard called forth spade men who were seen at work throughout the afternoon around the Chinese whatsis, or dragon, by Boylston Hall...
Other significant trends include the astonishing shifts in population centers and the new political relationships. The former is largely a result of the decline of the reproductive rate in Northern Europe, the growth of new centers in Asiatic Russia, and their high general reproductive rate which is expected to increase the population in the Soviet Union from 170 millions now to 340 millions by 1975. "More than half of the world's population are in Asia and are still to be educated to consume modern industrial goods. From a purely economic point of view, America's self-interest lies...
...Eugene Loomis, president of the road for 20 years, retired to become board chairman. Elected to succeed him was Scottish-born Duncan John Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived in the U. S. with a degree in engineering from the University of Glasgow. With Great Northern Ry. from 1910 to 1936, Mr. Kerr was assistant to the vice president in charge of operations and president of coal and lumber subsidiaries in Montana when Mr. Loomis hired him as his assistant last year. Reserved, 53-year old President Kerr lives in Manhattan, enjoys most "just being...