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...discuss with officials of other colleges the chronic ills of higher education, President Conant and Dean Murdock will leave Friday for a two-day conference at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Laundries, student employment, parking, and student organizations are typical of the matters broached informally behind closed doors. The press is allowed no access to these meetings, at which ideas are exchanged in an unofficial manner...
...spent in resting. The morning of the 16th at midnight the whole packing party, plus Washburn and Holcombe, started from the high camp and by 8 o'clock they had reached the base of the 1000 foot cliff which the party scaled last year. At this point a two-day snow storm drove the party back and kept them in the high camp until the morning of the nineteenth. They left, however, before turning back at the foot of the cliff, crampons, rope, and other climbing supplies to be used as soon as the storm broke. It cleared the night...
...After a two-day rest-up at his mother's home in Okmulgee, Okla., NRAdministrator Johnson, accompanied by his ubiquitous secretary, Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, swept into Chicago last week to help settle the Stock Yard strike (see p. 9) and make one of his rip-roaring speeches at the Century of Progress. Neatly stacked in his room at the Drake Hotel upon his arrival were copies of the city's four leading newspapers: Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News; William Randolph Hearst's American and Herald & Examiner; Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune. General Johnson did not have...
...head. Other strikers broke police lines, rushed to the scene. Police fired again. Fifty pickets were wounded, most of them in the arms and legs. One died next day. Overtures for a general strike were made but other unions promised no more than moral support. Meantime a two-day truce was declared, to give Rev. Francis Haas, Federal mediator, time to arrange a settlement. Governor Floyd B. Olson moved 4,000 guardsmen to the State Fair Grounds. When the truce expired no settlement had been reached and police again began convoying food trucks...
...Day after day last week until perspiration rolled down their faces and their slender grey-haired director was ready to drop, 100 students at the Westminster Choir School in Princeton, N. J., sang praises to God. They were preparing for this week's commencement, to be followed by an ambitious two-day music festival. This year, above all others, they wanted to show what they could do. Their choir was building a reputation as the best choral organization in the U. S. And it had undertaken Bach's B Minor Mass, a stiff test for seasoned professionals. Besides...