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...editorial intimates that the original purpose of the Society has been abandoned "to conform to popular taste or in a search for novelty for its own sake." From the first it has been the policy of the Society to present new trends in contemporary art, not for their freakishness but as a means of informing Cambridge and Boston of modern movements. The Society does in no way depart from this policy in presenting the forthcoming show of the work of Ben Shahn...
...danger constantly threatening the vitality of the Society is that its original purpose may be forgotten either in an effort to conform to popular tastes or in a search for novelty for its own sake. The Society is the only first-hand contact offered the University layman with pioneer thought and technique in painting and sculpture and should shows be chosen for other reasons than that they are honest and capable examples of the forward line in contemporary art then the Society will lose its reason for being...
...publishing of the recent ruling earlier in the week has aroused considerable comment in the press due to utterances by various university heads, led by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to conform with the ruling, according to Dr. K. T. Compton, President. Dr. D. L. Marsh, president of Boston University, was the only nearby educational leader to issue a statement protesting the order...
When he was almost two months old, Washington was sprinkled in the "orthodox Episcopal manner." At 33 he took oath to conform to the doctrine of the Church of England "as by law established." Throughout his life he was seen regularly in church though he did not often kneel in prayer or partake of communion. Washington's reputation, like that of such Deists as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, is one of coolness and moderation in religion. But through his time swept a hot blast of evangelism, chiefly in the Methodist and Baptist faiths. General Washington...
...operate the reform school on the lines of a private school. Superintendent Robert Rosenbluth will function as headmaster. The boys, whose ages range from 12 to 16 years, will have 700 acres in which to work, play and roam. They will wear no uniforms, live in cottages, conform to no more rules than do private school boys...