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...notes (of the victrola) swelled, the dull aurora on the horizon pulsed and quickened and draped itself into arches and fanning beams which reached across the sky until at my zenith the display attained its crescendo. The music and the night became one; and I told myself that all beauty was akin and sprang from the same substance...
William Colestin Murphy, Aurora, Illinois--West Aurora High School...
Selection of the three outstanding candidates for admission to the Medical School this fall as recipients of National Scholarships offered by the School under the University's "long term" scholarship policy have been announced. Winners are Glen T. Loymaster, of Aurora, Nebraska, Nebraska '88, Clarke T. Case, of Pinmana, Burma, Cornell '38, and Laurence G. Wesson Jr., and Baltimore, Maryland, Haverford...
Elbert Hubbard, flowing-haired, flowing-tied purveyor of philosophical-artistic tripe to the U. S. of a generation ago, was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches...
President of the Federation is Clarence B. Benedict, a retired patent attorney of Brookline, Mass., who will be president of the new Roycroft Community. The jobs which Infinite Science is to provide in East Aurora will be much the same as those of the old Roycrofters, but more numerous - up to 1,000 when the shops are running at Infinite capacity with three scientific shifts...