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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horseback riding, small arms and pistol practice, with a competition for selection of fifteen men to represent New England in the national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, a little before the opening of college next fall. All expenses of this team are paid by the Government. The training courses cover the usual Army branches, Infantry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Cavalry, Engineering, Signal Corps, the latter providing instruction in the various means of communication, such as radio and land line telegraphy, telephony, and various means of signalling. Exceptional students may be recommended for commissions in the Reserve...
...attended the Art Institute where he specialized in the design of stained glass windows, later going to Paris and studying at the Academic Julien. For the last 15 years, he made his home in New Rochelle and established a reputation as an illustrator for commercial and magazine cover work. Leyendecker was much admired for his crisp, clear style. His death is a loss to the field of good commercial...
...COOK AND THE CAPTAIN BOLD? Arthur Mason?Atlantic Monthly Press ($2.00). A sea-story that sails from cover to cover without once reminding you that you are a landlubber. For the crew, there is the bo'sun, with the beautiful dancing girls au naturel tatooed on his hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita...
...pseudo-scientific basis of historical fact, in the story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...
...even scholastic prestige of their own colleges. What has become imperative is a less selfish viewpoint. Surveys like that made by Upton Sinclair disclose an astounding hodgepodge of educational standards and methods, and this is inevitable as long as every college urged on by its alumni, seeks to cover the whole range of learning from liberal arts to applied science, and as long as secondary schools seek to prepare both for vocations and for college. A clearer definition of functions a national educational policy and system are obviously accessary. Unless refuge is to be taken in government control this...