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Winner of first honorable mention was John T. Hack '35, and Elbert P. Little '34, and Willis A. Boughton '07, assistant director of the chemical laboratories, also received honorable mention. The exhibit will be open evenings from 7 to 10 o'clock for the remainder of the week in Adams...
Added Columbia's loud Professor Walter Boughton Pitkin, historian of Stupidity (TIME, April 4), co-summarizer: "The best thing which the richest, most influential and most ambitious graduates of American colleges during the past 40 years have been able to achieve is to send 127,000,000 people into bankruptcy and mess up all of North America...
...brains had legs, most brains would be all legs, or so Walter Boughton Pitkin, breezy professor in Columbia University's School of Journalism, seems to imply. For its gangling lack of intelligence the Professor takes the world to task. Its follies, like its females, show an infinite variety, but there seem to be only nine major categories of human stupidity. "These intermarry and blend in all sorts of combinations. . . . Some rise to glory, while others are hunted by the police. The history of them all is the history of our race, in the main." Though abysmal dullness abounds, Author...
...Author. Walter Boughton Pitkin has worked at 40 different jobs. He started herding cattle at 14, at 53 is professor of journalism at Columbia University. In his spare time he writes books, occasionally gives galvanizing advice to editors of moribund magazines...
Smoking has always been taboo in the vicinity of lecture rooms, and other places of study regardless of the fire-proof nature of the buildings, Boughton stated. The close association between the laboratories themselves, the classrooms, and the library, where smoking would be out of the question, render any exception in the case of the corridors impossible as it would be difficult to draw line where smoking should begin and end. Extra caretakers to enforce the rule are unwanted, and a burden would be placed on the cleaners...