Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of West Virginia the Y. W. C. A. asked Author Kirby Page to lecture to them on pacificism. President Frank Butler Trotter forbade Mr. Page the use of the campus for his speech. "Why?" asked Mr. Page. Answered President Trotter: "Because this is a state-supported institution and too much turmoil had been caused by the invitation." The Reserve Officers Training Corps, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan had protested. Mr. Page spoke outside the campus, to 75 students...
...criticism has been heaped on Dr. Noble by the press, musicians and laymen alike, for showing few results commensurate with the Foundation resources. Hence it has been with satisfaction that these same faultfinders noted the appointment last week of Pianist Ernest Hutcheson as Dean of the Graduate School, of Author John Erskine (himself a musician) as Chairman of the Advisory Board...
...such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works by U. S. composers, to be issued as the Juilliard Editions. Rhoda Erskine, (sister of Author Erskine) will give classes in history and literature for students who have had little general education...
...wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication he had had no allies in his opinions. Afterward he found a few (notably Thomas Huxley, Asa Gray, Alfred Russell Wallace, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell), but most of the civilized world thought the book was a fairy tale and the author a misguided fool...
...could retaliate with bitter jibes directed either at the morose undergraduate author or at the Alumni publication which would print such fiction. But after all this is merely another of those merry occasions which gather such enviable publicity for two great universities, and even an avid press might eventually weary of petty bickerings, founded on untruths. One might question the point or the intended moral of such noble statements as. "In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning...