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Accordingly A. R. Gates of Chicago, co-donor of the trophy for the world's championship toque tournament, has suggested a balkline game. He would draw a twelve-inch circle around each arch and stake within which no ball is eligible to advancement for the point. Roque players throughout the country are enormously excited over the suggested innovation. Apparently roque, as the present generation has known and loved it, must shuffle into discard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roque to Croak | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Joseph Pennell, etcher extraordinary, confidant and biographer of Whistler, American by birth, cosmopolite by choice, arch-enemy of democracy and materialism, damned the "standardized product" of the London Royal College of Arts, in a letter to The New York Times. The reason why we have no national art school in America is "because the Government of this country takes no interest in art. We have no minister, no department of art. ... In fact, we have no art of our own to speak of, and don't really know how properly to steal that of other countries. How long will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Pennell Rampant | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...almost the climax?of an attempt to rid the union of communists masquerading under various titles: " The Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers of America," " The Trades Union Educational League" and others. Previously in an official statement the United Mine Workers denounced these groups as their arch enemies?the creatures of William Z. Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eradicating Radicals | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

There still remain things to be done. The boat race must be rowed today and the baseball game must be played tomorrow. The sky has been searched with powerful telescopes but not a cloud has been seen to break the viciously brazen arch of the heavens. Yet even if the sun continues its merciless glare and the asphalt becomes a sea of tar, the shadows of Harvard rooters will throng to the arenas of sport to cheer on their teoms. . . . "The rest is silence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SPOUT, RAIN!" | 6/22/1923 | See Source »

...been given to Harvard for a new chemical laboratory. The amount required, $2,000,000, seems assured. Announcement was made at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at Kansas City. At the same meeting a letter was read from Dr. Eliot urging the erection of a majestic arch as a war memorial rather than the founding, for the same purpose, of scholarships. A resolution condemning disrespect toward the Eighteenth Amendment was carried but tabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Harvard Meeting | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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