Word: croce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Hutchins went, aged 16, to Oberlin College, near Cleveland, for two years. Then War called him to France, where he drove an ambulance, and to Italy, where for bravery he received the Croce di Guerra. Peace called him back to the U. S. and Yale. He worked his way through by organizing a Co-operative Tutoring Bureau. He was graduated with an A. B. in 1921, entered the Law School for a four-year course. Success and Dr. Angell had already marked him. He succeeded Anson Phelps Stokes, now canon of Washington Cathedral, as Secretary of the University. From...
Youngest of the legal technicians to be called was Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30. Brooklyn-born, fair of face. Into three decades Dean Hutchins has packed much successful living. On the Italian front he won a Croce di Guerra for U. S. ambulance driving. A Yale graduate of 1921, he captained the debating team, was class orator, achieved prominence without athletics. Two years later while a Yale Law School student he was chosen secretary of the University. His LL.B. came magna cum laude in 1925. In 1927 he was made Dean of the Yale Law School...
Most definitions of art are vague, inconclusive. Italian Philosopher Benedetto Croce murmurs abstrusely of "expression." Spanish Philosopher George Santayana distinguishes art as an extension of utilitarian practices into the realm where utility is forgotten and pleasure begins. Thus, a tribal dance pleading for the gift of rain is not art, whereas a ballet, tripped for its own sake, may be. In Manhattan, last week Sculptor George Gray Barnard defined art as the creations of those who possess the "Great...
Most distinguished and revered among the 19 Senators who voted against the Amendment was Signer Benedetto Croce, aged but foremost living Italian philosopher-historian and philosopher. His speech, boldly remonstrating with Il Duce, did not pass the Fascist censor...
...printing across the cover of their new magazine The New American. The lion complains this title might be confused with The American Magazine, giant of 2,162,252 circulation. The mouse doubts it; seeks chiefly to stimulate Italian Americans. The new magazine is soberly manufactured; contains writings of Benedetto Croce, Margaret Widdemer...