Word: organizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of the organization, as outlined in "The Student Review," its official organ, is extensive, and includes the following propositions: to aid the working classes in strikes and demonstrations; to fight against all preparation for war, "which takes in colleges the forms of military training, jingoistic propaganda, etc."; to "expose the sham of 'democracy'. . .; the consistent denial of the elementary rights of free speech, press and peaceful assembly; the violent repression of working class struggles"; to expose and fight against "a fascist reign by capitalist interests"; to defend and popularize the U. S. S. R. and its plan; to fight...
During the first months of the House Plan, the seven House committees have been in some measure responsible for the activity or inactivity of their respective units. The novelty of the plan and the natural indifference on the part of students has made some central organ for stimulating House interest necessary...
There can be little argument that American governments are sadly riddled with corruption; that fact, and the tedious apprenticeship and small remuneration have militated against the entrance of college men into politics. Nearly every organ of opinion has tended to emphasize these more repugnant facts without pointing out that any future betterment must depend entirely on the energies of honest, capable men. Those, therefore who are eminently fitted through training, ability, and character to elevate politics from their rut are discouraged at every turn. There is little honor due the person who cries over spilt milk while holding...
Their faces gleaming from soap & water, their hair scrupulously combed, 67 flushed old men and 67 excited old women waited in the transepts of Westminster Abbey last week. The organ groaned magnificently. Down the aisle stalked a scarlet-&-gold Yeoman of the Guard bearing on his head a solid gold platter piled high with purses of scarlet and white leather. Behind the Yeoman walked King George, Queen Mary and the King's Almoner, the Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson whose other duties include the Deanship of Wells Cathedral...
...useful to the whole family, who have there their "silent rooms." To its two-room base, Garth Sherwood and Donnan Call, the Jeffers' twin sons, resort in rainy weather. On the floor above, Mrs. Jeffers, who is devoted to music. Irish folk-songs in particular, has installed a small organ. Poet Jeffers, to whom all music is "just noise." occupies, with a table and a chair, the tiny room above. Here in the mornings, when his slow pulse beats only 40 times a minute, he slowly writes his poems; in the afternoons, when his pulse speeds...