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...John D. Rockefeller Jr. Because the name of Rockefeller had been successfully minimized in the papers, comment on the exhibition was limited to a few desultory paragraphs. It deserved more, since Mrs. Rockefeller's gift, designed to supplement the collection bequeathed by her good friend Lizzie P. Bliss,* has made the Museum of Modern Art one of the greatest collections of modern painting in the world...
Juilliard who left $14,000,000 to music. The Metropolitan's board chairman, Paul Drennan Cravath, is a director of the Juilliard School of Music, as is Cornelius N. Bliss, chairman of the Metropolian's executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson...
...England tradition, stands behind him. His shapely head, long nose and aristocratically petulant mouth were born to him. He went to Harvard in the same class (1900) with, three other young men who grew up to be eminent U. S. diplomats by profession, William R. Castle Jr., Robert Woods Bliss, Peter Augustus Jay. Billy Phillips' career matched his endowments. After college a classmate and a fellow Porcellian, Bayard Cutting, elder brother of the late Senator from New Mexico, went to London as private secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph H. Choate. Tiring of diplomacy, Cutting in 1903 suggested Phillips...
...their visits to Goethe (Cogswell persuaded Goethe to give a set of his works to the Harvard Library) to plant the seeds of German academic culture in this country. Ticknor and Longfellow were the first and second incumbents of the chair later distinguished by James Russell Lowell and Bliss Perry. Mr. Long treats the academic influence of the pioneers fully. These are, it is worth repeating, significant chapters in the history of education in the United States...
This Sunday evening at 7:30 Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, not Professor Bliss Perry, will lecture on Jugoslavian Folk Songs at a meeting of the Coffee Pot Club in the Kirkland House Senior Common Room. Professor Parry spent last summer in Jugoslavia collecting the songs...