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...Ohio State University, a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister jointly conducted Holy Week services designed to allay the widespread Christian conviction that Jews alone were responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. C. Near Albuquerque, N. Mex. on Good Friday, Los Hermanos Penitentes re-enacted their bloody version of Christ's Passion, with increased attention from sightseers and the Press (TIME, March 9). C. In Quebec, Good Friday was celebrated as many Catholics believe it should be everywhere. By proclamation, Mayor J. E. Gregoire ordered all theatres, public buildings, shops closed...
...University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
...carried to Egypt, Spain, then to the U. S. Southwest for good. Not since 1923 had he seen a football game with sharp-faced President Walter Dill Scott, of Northwestern, great ferret of endowments, great friend of Deerings. Roger died at 51 last fortnight in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Last week his will revealed that except for small bequests to his mother and two sisters, his entire estate of something over $7,000,000 will go to Northwestern. Bringing the family total to $10,300,000, it was the 70th gift which the university has received from persons of the blood...
...once proposed apportioning the Indians, like so many marbles, nine to each county in the U. S.) founded Carlisle School in Pennsylvania. Carlisle, bolstered by a Federal subsidy and the prestige of its football teams, flourished until 1918, in spired the founding of Haskell (Lawrence, Kans.), Albuquerque (N. Mex.), many another boarding school far from the Indian Reservations. But the Indian did not take to the white man's ways. The graduates of the boarding schools generally returned to their reservations and their blankets. Since the prime tenet of Progressive Education is to let pupils study what they want...
...Washington, D. C., for Washington, D. C., Virginia and West Virginia; Walter F. Dillingham '00, Honolulu, T. H., for Hawall; James Jackson '04, Boston, Mass., for New England; Phillip C. Staples '04, Philadelphia, Pa., for E. Pa and Del.; William W. Fisher '04, Dallas, Tex., for Tex., Okla., N. Mex., and Ariz.; Samuel A. Welldon '04, New York City, for New York City; John J. Rowe '06, Cincinnati, O., for South Ohio; George B. Simmons '07, Baltimore, Md., for Maryland; Perey W. Brown '08, Cleveland, O., for North Ohio; Chaster I. Barnard '10, Newark, N. J., for New Jersey; Charles...