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...This gave the society an unsavory reputation among many outsiders. To others it seemed ridiculous. Many an undergraduate and alumnus has spattered mud, flour, beer on the allegorically righteous bronze figure of the Christian Student, which stands across the road from Murray-Dodge Hall, small brownstone. neo-Gothic citadel of the society (TIME. Dec. 2). Two facetious undergraduates once conducted a campaign for the presidency and vice presidency of the organization which was so effective that it ended by unanimous consent in the office of genial Dean Christian Gauss...
...Union League Club of Manhattan,, citadel of conservative Republicanism, queried its 1,800 members, found 932 for repeal, 264 for modification, 109 for enforcement...
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...opening of the Museum of Modern Art show of Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh and Seurat, was 47,000. Neither art lovers nor the curious visit displays of academic art in such crowds. Cynics say that even the National Academy of Design, the very last and as yet uncaptured citadel of conservatism, had to hang a picture sidewise and then publicize the fact that a somewhat modernistic picture had been so hung by mistake (TIME, Nov. 18), to get people to attend its latest show...
...absurdities of our time," met in Senator La Follette "a lonely figure climbing the mountain of privileges," condemns Henry Ford's philosophy as alluringly Utopian, too mechanistic, finds John Davison Rockefeller Jr. a man who "has made of his millions a weapon to shake ignorance out of its citadel...