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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important activities at Pendle Hill is the conferences of non-Quaker groups which are held there. Trade unions have found the Quaker seclusion and quiet ideal for various types of meetings. They are welcomed, for many Friends are intensely concerned with labor problems, especially the necessity of achieving harmony between labor and management. Few expect the spiritual influence of Pendle Hill to be immediate or sensational; they are content to make a beginning. Nor are all Friends agreed as to how tl beginning should be made. At one conference, union representatives put up loudspeakers through which they berated...
Before the speechifying started, the Bowl audience was entertained by a lively, two-hour amateur musical show called The Good Road, in which 160 Buchmanites skillfully compounded propaganda for "God-control" from such various elements as Swiss yodelers, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, Washington, the Magna Carta, a G.I. on Okinawa, and an average family...
...doctors come from states all over the country as well as Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ireland, and China. This wide regional divergence is due to a policy of geographical distribution inaugurated by President Conant which has spread from the College to the various graduate schools including the Medical School...
Following this and the presentation of the honorary degree, there will be several Alumni luncheons for the various classes. The afternoon is given over completely to the Alumni Association: George Rublee '90 will welcome all alumni as President of the Alumni Association; President Conant will report the gifts of the past year; and Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, as first Marshal of the Twenty-Fifth Class, will speak for his group...
Till The Clouds Roll By--Review day at the U.T. offers what is at its best a technicolor collection of Jerome Kern's great songs. At its worst, it is only a little more awful than the various other film biographies of composers...