Word: array
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present-day college educators have provided the student with a pleasant array of physical comforts, have built for him a cloister and a hearth, have provided him with unprecedented athletic facilities. Now they only have to ask that he refuse to stifle. With respect to creating a zest for knowledge and, above all, a zest for life, they remain with their eighteenth century predecessors, waiting for the horse to drink of the living water...
...solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head of the Russian Orthodox church) could hardly wait to sit for Brother Elmer. Elmer repeated the performance in Sweden, won from King Oscar praise that paved his way through all Scandinavia. Henrik Ibsen, ill and unable to walk, was gladly...
...over Russia one day last week, Communist manifestants paraded the streets in bellicose array, displaying gas masks, small arms, sundry war materiel. Overhead, Red planes swung across the sky, on land there were military maneuvers, at sea Red warships wallowed in sham battle. Paradoxically, the parading crowds carried banners not praising war but decrying it; the Red planes dove, not to loose steel and nitroglycerine eggs, but to dump fluttering leaves of peace propaganda. The occasion: International Anti-War Day, held on the 16th anniversary of mobilization for the World War (Aug. 1). At Moscow the climax...
Seldom has such a formidable array of tycoons been represented in a college activity. Tycoons great and small are included on the roster, new tycoons and old, Harvard and non-Harvard. Besides Founder-members George Fisher Baker and William Ziegler Jr., some of the old established Tycoon-Associates are: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, John Pierpont Morgan, Adolph S. Ochs, Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California...
...artists sometimes worry about U.S. art, wonder why it is not bigger & better, why so many U. S. artists have been expatriates, literally or in spirit. Critic Josephson here collects a formidable array of case histories: James Whistler, Lafcadio Hearn, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Henry Adams, Henry Harland, Stuart Merrill, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein...