Word: ymca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when it finally opened its doors to the University in 1900, the Union had just been completed as a meeting and lounging place for undergraduates. At the time, too, a religious movement was sweeping the country. The YMCA had been organized with principles close to those Brooks had followed. So the massive building was used as its headquarters...
Competition soon began building up all over Cambridge. Harvard Square became a business and social center. The YMCA grow too large for the house and moved to its own quarters. Churches sprang up around the University and formed students groups of their own. By the early '20's, all the religious societies that had operated from PBH were dropped or absorbed by churches. According to a Yale divinity student in 1944 who did an extensive paper on Brooks House, religious interest here was "suffering from arterio-sclerosis...
...these people," wrote Mrs. Lois Dean, of Washington, D.C. last week in a letter containing her contribution to the rebuilding of Pastor Ye Yun-Ho's church in Seoul. "Thanks a million for the good news that he is safe; we had been inquiring about him through the YMCA," was the way another reader...
...view of the present state of affairs in Korea, we are sending your contributions to Dr. George A. Fitch, of the International YMCA, 291 Broadway, New York, N.Y., who was treasurer of the first Pastor Ye fund...
Dave Smith's name was inadvertently omitted from yesterday's story about the New England AAU wrestling championships Saturday at the Union YMCA. Smith, who competed at 136 most of the regular season, showed good form in winning the 145-pound crown...