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...meet the town's best citizens on eye level. Some, perhaps, join out of mere curiosity over the mysterious rites. The majority join just to be with the gang-and are more or less surprised to experience a quite considerable spiritual uplift after they get in. Said a Rutland, Vt. advertising salesman: "There's something gets under your skin at a lodge meeting which makes you think about...
Seitz, Daniel Ward of 130 East 67th Street, New York, N. Y.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. White, James Floyd of 213 Church Street, Rutland, Vt.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Wolvertown, Robert George of 2856 North Hartung Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...
...Rutland (Vt.) Junior College, founded 1946, the first three years had been bitterly hard. To begin with, the original $150,000 fund-raising campaign had fallen short by $60,000. Tuitions ($400 a year) failed to bridge the gap. Then the trustees asked the Rutland city council for help. That involved a referendum, but last week it was still a month away, and Rutland's 16-member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed...
Last week they ran a torchlight parade through the streets of Rutland, called on citizens to pitch in. Rutlanders caught the spirit. An automobile dealer, who had agreed to match one undergraduate team's collections, handed over $103; a waitress gave her day's tips of $1.17. Some landladies of student boarding houses offered a month's free rent if the money were given to the college. As the local radio station and newspaper spread the story, more kept pouring...
...week's end, the undergraduates' campaign had raised $6,373 worth of cash and pledges and the campaign was still going full tilt. There was even a chance that Rutland Junior College would be able to open next September, if enough Rutlanders voted yes in the referendum...