Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officially confirmed for Yalemen last week by their Alumni Weekly was the well-known fact that 67-year-old President James Rowland Angell, having reached the University's retirement age, will leave his post within the scholastic year. Yale's Corporation, the Alumni Weekly revealed, is already on the hunt for his successor, hopes to pick him before June 1937. Last week the man mentioned oftenest and most persistently for the job, Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Class of 1921, published a book of timely, topical interest, † Based on the Storrs Lectures that Educator Hutchins delivered...
...wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore, his fellow Slav, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a genius of late greatly underrated. Stravinsky says he detests "star conductors" who pride themselves on their interpretations. According to Stravinsky's precepts the composer's notations...
...hermetically sealed, steel & concrete structure 130 ft. high, and to house documents and relics of the present U. S. civilization for the benefit of future archeologists. Builder was tottering, half-blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below and find the cause of the death of a civilization...
Defeated only once this season, fast coming of age as a major football power in the Pacific Coast Conference, University of California at Los Angeles, paced by Fullback Billy Williams who broke a 13-to-13 tie with a place kick in the last quarter, beat Oregon State...
...STONE AGE AFRICA-L. S. B. Leakey-Oxford...