Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Research (Manhattan), to which no college training is prerequisite and of which the aim is enlightened citizenship, entered its eighth year with the following, among other notables, scheduled to lecture: Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College (history, sociology); Dr. John B. Watson, onetime psychology chief at Johns Hopkins, author of Behaviorism (psychology); Dr. S. Ferenczi of Hungary, colleag of Dr. Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis...
...Author. Roy Floyd Dibble, a. gentleman of 39, obtained a Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1921 and later instructed there, in English. Soon after its inception, the American Mercury enlisted his caustic nib, as has the Century Magazine. Last year he caused widespread delight with a biography of the late and eminent pugilist, John L. Sullivan (TIME, April...
...Author Dewing's approach to her character is, like him, unique. The story is not told straight out; she pretends to collaborate with John's mother, evoking his image and career piecemeal from the recollections and letters of people who knew him; from news cutting about him, interviews, reviews of his books. (There is one review...
...Significance. This not only should be but probably will be one of the celebrated novels of the year. The author's real desire to interest, inform, amuse and move her reader is felt and fulfilled without visible effort. There is wit, grace, fine feeling and a style which, while lively, never begs applause. The people are so real that there will be endless discussion of who is actually who: Sculptor St. George is Sculptor Saint-Gaudens, and so on. If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially...
...article on the value of training received in the Photographic Department appears on page six of this issue. The author is J. H. Durgin 1G.B., chairman of last year's photographic board...