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Reunions Somewhat Tamer...
...reason Harvard Reunions have become somewhat tamer lately is not that after three centuries the University authorities are finally beginning to crack down. Nor is it, as one observer suggested last year, that the Classes currently celebrating their 25th anniversaries "graduated during the depression and have never gotten over...
This amounts to pretty strong praise. First Reunions are tamer, fund raising techniques more enlightened, and Club activities directed toward improving the College student body. And now organized alumni, long considered the bete noire of every college administrator's life, suddenly evoke such a sincere tribute from a University Hall official--one, moreover, who is not directly engaged in alumni fund raising...
...Wickizer, that for every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion of older citizens and working wives. But this should not mean a tamer type of preaching, he warned: "It worries me that so many of our younger ministers feel that they must preach in a quiet and solemn voice with never a gesture, never a smile, never a change in cadence. It would be a relief if they would hit the pulpit just...
...classic western. Sheridan City is so terrorized by a villainous rancher named Dade Holman that the panicky citizens hire flint-eyed, flint-faced Robert Mitchum to civilize the community. Inside of ten minutes, four of Holman's badmen are being measured for coffins. Casually holstering his guns, Town-Tamer Mitchum suggests burying at least two of them out on the wild prairie, because "Sheridan City's too small to have such a big cemetery...