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...scale with schools for employes including Labor colleges (Brookwood, in Katonah, N. Y., Commonwealth, in Mena, Ark.). Many a C.I.O. union has recently established an educational department, which not only teaches workers Labor history but trains them in collective bargaining strategy, psychology, public speaking, influencing public opinion. Largest and oldest of such programs is that of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, directed by astute, British-born Mark Starr, which has 20,000 workers enrolled in courses. New Labor courses have been started for auto, rubber, transport workers, and WPA Workers Education Project is explaining Labor's problems...
...Baird Carillon at the University of Michigan; the Bok Carillon in Mountain Lake, Fla.; the 53 bells of the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament Building in Ottawa. Last week small Alfred University in Alfred, N. Y. inaugurated a carillon of 35 bells which it claimed was the oldest in North America...
Alfred's biggest bell, weighing about a half ton, is also its oldest, cast in 1674 by Pieter Hemony of Amsterdam, ablest bell founder of his time. The youngest bell in the collection was cast in 1784 by another famed bellman, Van den Gheyn of Malines. The 35 assorted bells were assembled and tuned-by scraping metal from the lower "lip" and the inner surface-by Jef Denyn, director of the Belgian National School of the Carillon. The carillon, housed temporarily in a wooden tower on the Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week...
...include the installation of automatic sprinklers in all class rooms and in the attic, as well as new stone steps at the old, or south entrance to the class room, now make Harvard Hall comply with all regulations of the Massachusetts Public Safety Board. The building, one of the oldest in the Yard, will be ready for use next Wednesday, the first day of classes...
...first time within the memory of the oldest grizzled inhabitant, that's the long eared man in the Square, successful Freshman football candidates will muss up the greensward of the Stadium in a real game when they meet Brown on October 30 while the Varsity is at Princeton...