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From 3:00 to 7:00 through the heat the multitude gathered into the sylvan theatres near the Washington Monument; the great drought within them was mocked by a downpour of rain. A prayer, a speech or two, and the pounding, pounding rain brought the meeting to a close...
With richly caparisoned pageantry, with fine democratic speechmaking, with orchestras, choirs, choruses, soloists, with lecturers, clergymen, suffragettes, scientists, with the President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., and the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, the annual program of Chautauqua Institution was launched upon the sylvan shores of Lake Chautauqua, N. Y. It was the 50th anniversary of the coming together of a little band of people who studied the Bible together in a Summer camp in 1874. They had been invited by Dr. John H. Vincent, preacher, later bishop, and his friend Lewis Miller, mowing-machine...
...Convention began with Mr. Mahoney's appearing before a curtain representing a sylvan scene. He delivered a keynote speech: "We have always employed methods sanctioned by the Constitution. We have always followed democratic and legal procedure. Our opponents have not. The ruling class never does use democratic and constitutional procedure unless it serves its ends...
Pole Vault--1, (tie) Benjamin Owens, Penn; Nelson Sherrill, Penn; and Sylvan Dartmouth; Lauren Upson, California; and Major Sanford, Mass. Tech...
...Corliss Lamont FOR IVY ORATOR William Nahum Gates Frederick Humphrey Nichols FOR ORATOR Richard Stewart Bowers Charlton MacVeagh FOR POET Kenneth Dole Oliver La Farge John Warren Knedler Jr. Charles Hill Morgan FOR ODIST Richard Dodge Gerould Alexander Cameron Sedgwick FOR CHORISTER Robert Paul Bullard Stanley Noel Brown Addison Sylvan Simmons...