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...head finally got on the platter, neither President Bowman nor Dr. Mitchell had publicly explained by last week, when 150 bigwigs from the Hopkins faculty and Maryland's public life (including Johns Hopkins' famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted and browbeat...
...Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip abroad in June 1929, Mr. Goodyear shook his hand and asked him to name the ablest candidate available for the directorship of a modern museum. He named Alfred Hamilton Barr...
Charioteer. Alfred Barr was then 27, an associate professor of fine arts at Wellesley. Born in Detroit, brought up in Baltimore, son of a Presbyterian minister who had a taste for medieval art, he had majored in science until his last year at Princeton, intending to become a paleontologist. This training served him well when he came to deal with the data of Dada. After graduate work in art and archeology, he taught at Vassar, Harvard, Princeton, and launched at Wellesley in 1926 an ambitious course in modern art. It involved "driving a seven-or eight-wheeled chariot," handling...
Each college entering is allowed to send six men, the lowest four of which are used to make the team total. The regular Crimson six-man team of Ace Cordingley, Bob Graves, Jack Barr, Henry Thompson, Watty Dickerman, and Don Elbel are playing. In addition, any number of men may enter from each college to compete for individual honors...
...first foursome as Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves were defeated in best ball and Cordingley lost his individual match. Graves, however, gave Harvard what proved to be the deciding point of the day as he nosed out Yale's Merritt on the 20th green. Henry Thompson, Jack Barr, and Watty Dickerman won their matches, and the Barr-Dickerman duo provided the fifth tally...