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...actually the autobiography of Ger- trude Stein, unwary readers might get all the way to the 310th and last page without discovering the mild hoax. For no author's name is on the title-page, and the book is written as if by Alice B. Toklas herself. But cognoscenti, even if they had not been forewarned by advance publicity, would recognize the circular motto on the book's cover-a signature as peculiar to Gertrude Stein as his famed butterfly was to Painter James Mcneill Whistler. The motto: Who & What is Gertrude Stein? "Widely ridiculed and seldom enjoyed...
Like New York's lamented Bank of United States, the National Academy of Design impresses men of simple faith by the grandiose sound of its name. Again like the Bank of U. S. it has long been heartily damned by the cognoscenti, though unlike the crashed bank, nothing could possibly be more respectable than the academy. Last week the National Academy of Design flung wide its doors for a 106th annual exhibition. A great many people crowded in. Last November, stung by the scorn of younger critics, the Academicians and their Associates limited the show to their own works...
Alfred Stieglitz, who has the hairiest ears and the most positive opinions of any dealer in New York, opened his autumn season fortnight ago with an exhibition by that darling of the cognoscenti, John Marin, No. i man in that collection of artists which Alfred Stieglitz has so successfully cherished and promoted that they are known as the "Stieglitz Group...
...dirt. Few who read the lead story in this issue of the CRIMSON will emerge from the maze of charge and counter-charge with more than an inkling as to what it's all about. In the first place only the most elect of the agricultural cognoscenti know where the Botanic Garden is and few but concentrators in horticulture can tell within a time limit of five minutes the difference between the Botanic Garden and the Gray Herbarium. But an understanding of these points is but elementary to an understanding of the present controversy...
Before James McKeen Cattell became a journalist* and a pundit honored among the cognoscenti, he was a teaching psychologist at Pennsylvania and Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social...