Word: barres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visitors & Governors of little St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. That unconventional gesture was President Hutchins' way of showing that he is a good loser. For St. John's had just reached to take from under his nose, in the persons of President-elect Stringfellow Barr and Dean-elect Scott Buchanan, two educators whom Chicago drafted last year from the University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course. Now Educator Hutchins was willing to help Educators Barr and Buchanan with their projected revival...
...unpredictable form of a visit to Belleville, Ill. where he addressed the Presbyterian Men's Club. Next day the Belleville Daily Advocate reported that in the course of his speech Pitcher Dean had called the National League's President Ford Frick and its Umpire George Barr "the two biggest crooks in baseball." Last week, when the Cardinals went to New York to play the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pitcher Dean was notified that he had been indefinitely suspended by President Frick, would not be reinstated until he signed a letter of apology, retraction or denial...
...crowned its notable 1936-3 7 season with a comprehensive exhibit of the very latest artistic wrinkle, Surrealism. With a vertiginous backward leap 200 centuries into the Fourth Ice Age, the Museum last week wound up its season by presenting an extraordinary collection of Prehistoric Rock Pictures. Director Alfred Barr Jr. saw no paradox. He recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted so that the community might eat." Nevertheless, said he: "The formal...
...apparently are respectively symbols for mountain, rain and root. For briskness of conception, facility of line, the Mtoko paintings struck critics as being plastics of considerable honest merit in themselves. A small show of advanced abstractionists like Klee, Miro, Arp and Masson was added to the exhibit by Director Barr to show that some living painters are not very distant in spirit from the Mtoko masters...
Harvard Varsity golfers are Lewis McGowan, George Enos, Frank Appleton, Archie Foster, Bob Sides, John Barr, and James Brown...