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Architecture has long been considered by many to be a dusty compatriot of archaeology, that superficially dustier aspect of the history of man on the earth. Now such an attitude on the part of most people is not so much attributable to architecture itself as it is to its exponents and their manner of presenting the art to the average, and usually artistically phlegmatic, individual. Of the comparatively few men who have succeeded in making a small part of our population structure-conscious. Frank Lloyd Wright is perhaps foremost. "Man takes a positive hand in creation whenever he puts...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Among the new additions to the faculty will be many prominent foreigners including Werner W. Jaeger, professor of the Classics, and his compatriot, former Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Heinrich Bruening, who has been appointed a permanent professor in the Government Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX ADDITIONS ARE MADE TO STAFF OF FACULTY | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Radcliffe pickets on questioning seemed to disagree with her compatriot, claiming that "it is up to us Radcliffe girls to take the first step. We will see to it that the poor cabbies will be able to take care of as girls as well in the future after all we need as much help as some of the Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley, Rival, Support Strikers | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

Husky Nancye Wynne went to bed for 24 hours, then lumbered out to limber her muscles on Manhattan's River Club court. Her compatriot, 19-year-old John Bromwich, Australia's either-handed, both-handed tennis topnotcher, wandered around Broadway until sheer ennui forced him to do a little volleying on an indoor court. Blond Sidney Wood, Wimbledon winner in 1931 who has been trying for a comeback this summer after two years of minding his nuggets in a California gold mine, visited his relatives in Manhattan. California's Alice Marble, U. S. women's champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Forest Hills | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Newcomers or resurrected old-timers are the Guardian, magazine of social sciences, and Monthly, compatriot of the Advocate. Regular competitions are held for the boards of all of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra-Curricular Positions Await 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

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