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...restorations such as that of Williamsburg, Va., or The Cloisters (see p. 16), are to John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Museum of Modern Art is to Mrs. Rockefeller. Her gifts of modern art to the museum have been surpassed only by that of her friend, the late Lillie P. Bliss. Her greatest interest is in U. S. art, traditional and contemporary, and in this A. Conger Goodyear is a fellow soul. Ever since he first broached the idea to the Louvre authorities in 1932, dynamic President Goodyear, a lover of Winslow Homer and Charles Burchfield, has yearned to show France...
Yale retains winners of five first places a year ago while Harvard retains 3 1/2. Additionaly the colleges have the four pole vaulters, Bliss and Harding of Yale and Pettingell and Herrick of Harvard who tied for first place. Harvard's half first place is represented by Bob Haydock who tied with Johnny Badman of Yale, now graduated, in the high jump...
...before, for he had been fired from a teaching job. New Hampshire-born, a Yankee moralist, Granny Hicks was graduated with highest honors from Harvard ('23) and its Divinity School, taught Biblical literature and English at Smith College for three years, and assisted Harvard's famed Professor Bliss Perry before going to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an associate professor of English in 1929. By 1935, with The Great Tradition, a Marxist survey of U. S. literature since the Civil War, and a stream of contributions to leftist journals, he had established himself as a partisan but respected critic...
...Duck, who has a hilarious time with an omniverous ostrich, and by William Powell and Annabella, who in spite of the fantastic plot of "The Baroness and the Butler," also succeed in having a jolly time. If all programs were as good as this, movie reviewing would be uninterrupted bliss...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, was honorary judge, and Vernon H. Struck, Senior class second marshal, presided over the program. Judges for the competition were John H. Finley, Jr. '25, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English, emeritus, Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, emeritus, Joseph R. Hamlen '04, and the Hon. Eliot Wadsworth...