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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether for such extravagant reasons as this one, from The Odd Fellows' Text-Book and Manual of 1876, or merely to foil their loneliness and feed their egos, men since the dawn of history have banded together in secret societies. Modern Free-Masons believe their order "coeval with the creation of the world by the Almighty." Plato recorded the scandalous revels of secret orders in ancient Greece. Africa has its Egbo, eastern Australia its hoary lodges where the initiation begins by knocking out the candidate's front teeth. Nowhere have secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Beetle, Ax & Wedge | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...text of President Conant's Baccalaureate sermon may be found on page 6. A survey of the week's events is printed on page 3. On page 8 are assorted notices and program items...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 400 SENIORS HEAR PRESIDENT CONANT IN BACCALAUREATE | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...layman's address on Baccalaureate Sunday is by custom designated a sormen. Perhaps I may be permitted, therefore, to sum up all I have to say in advance by quoting the famous text from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text Of President's Baccalaureate Address | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...work. 22a: good, lots of work and reading; not for Sophomores. 32a and b: lots of work, detailed; probably best history course in college. 34a: lot of reading, but not quizzed; rather easy; interesting. 2: good; too thin for divisionals; lot of reading, but not hard. 45b: all in text; exams dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

Cinema-Arts' editor is Paul Husserl, onetime script editor for the cine-MARCH OF TIME. Following the current vogue, Editor Husserl packed his first issue with many more pictures than paragraphs, hired four artists, most notably Jaro Fabry, to illuminate what interstices were left between photographs and text. Best shots: a full page of Henry Armetta titled "Portrait of Expostulation " and "Double Feature," a photograph of a Manhattan theatre marquee advertising Romeo & Juliet and Mama Steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Film FORTUNE | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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