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SIrs: A new contributor to your Letters column, I address this not to the always courteous editors, but to the embittered and insulting Mr. Leonard J. (for Justice?) Bernheim of Chicago. He has apparently been stung by the Alimony Bug or he would not howl so loudly...
Finally, your contributor might have mentioned that Fine Arts is the fortunate beneficiary of two professorships which bring foreign scholars to Harvard, the Charles Eliot Norton and the Kuno Francke. On alternate years the holders of these chairs are authorities on art. Hind, Goldschmidt, and Kohler are the distinguished teachers from abroad who have been at the Fogg Museum in the past three years. Next year we will have Lawrence Binyon of the British Museum. F. B. Deknatel...
...condemnation of your contributor embraces both subject mater and the quality and method of instruction. To condemn the subject matter is ridienlous. Who can read Robertson, Henderson, Taussig, and Slichter, without being inspired to at least an appreciation of his own ignorance of economics and the greater ignorance of the subject in the outside world? Much more can be claimed for the subject matter, especially when one considers the instruction to be gained, instruction which would grace the doubtful hale of many business men, public administrators, and legislators...
...past year. One called Brass Tacks is four months old. Another. National Spotlight, edited by muckraking Walter William Liggett, vanished after a single appearance. This week came another, a 15? fortnightly on pulp stock named Common Sense, in which Writer Liggett again was the most conspicuous contributor. But Common Sense was distinguished by other characteristics. Its founders and chief editors are 27-year-old Alfred Mitchell Bingham, Yale law graduate, son of Republican Senator-reject Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; Selden Rodman, founder and former editor of The Harkness Hoot, literate, insurgent Yale undergraduate magazine; and Charles C. Nicolet. able newsman...
...Louis Reau, noted authority on French Sculpture and painting, and former professor of the history of sculpture at the Louvre, will give a public lecture on Contemporary French sculpture in the Fogg Art Museum at 8 o'clock this evening. Reau, in addition to being a contributor to the Gazette des Beaux Arts, has been a lecturer, in St. Petersburg and Vienna. The lecture, which will be illustrated is given under the auspices of the Alliance Francais, and is open to the public...