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...more than 200 people will attend today's ceremony in the faculty room of University Hall. But inaugurations have not always been this simple. When Abbot Lawrence Lowell was installed in 1909, 13,000 attended the three-day festivities, which included a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a mass demonstration by the students in the Stadium, and scores of dinners, lunches, and speeches...
This Is the Army? In Fort Sill, Okla., Army Captain James C. Blackford began a new morale program: to each man in his company on his birthday-a cake, a three-day pass and a personal letter of greeting...
...Orleans, Mrs. Francis Nixon, 68-year-old mother of Vice President Richard Nixon, was caught catnapping her way across the country by sitting up on a three-day and three-night train trip from California to Florida (where she will sell some property). "Of course, my sons wouldn't approve," she confided, "but I like to travel that way. You meet so many nice people in the coach...
...known as the Raqsa. Originally a wedding dance done solo by a young woman, Toledo's Raqsa was a sinuous, shoulder-shaking affair which whirled to a stop with arms hopefully extended for cash. Delegates found this a pleasant way to part with about $1,000 during the three-day convention...
...most rallying speeches of the three-day rally came from the Rev. Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, professor of philosophical theology at Vanderbilt University. "These days call for creative daring in social relations' said Dr. Ferre. "They call for setting the world right side up . . . These days call for freedom to think radically, to speak radically, to work radically, to go to the root of our troubles with the daring wisdom of Christian love and tender caution of Christian concern. "No evangelism to the masses will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks...