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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jaunty, jingling tour of Paris which pays no attention whatsoever to Gothic traceries, the Louvre or the sombre tomb of the Emperor. At one point the sightseers pass the monumental Church of the Madeleine but even their "Hallelujah!" is syncopated. Clad in the fulsome but insinuating draperies of the current princesse mode, the sightly visitors caper about such venerated Parisian landmarks as the Ritz Bar, American Express Co., Café de la Paix, Longchamps racetrack, Claridge Hotel, Château Madrid, Zelli's-all affectionately depicted by Designer Norman Bel Geddes...
...Current with the Philadelphia Museum report was an article in December Atlantic Monthly by Frank Jewett Mather Jr., onetime editorial writer and art critic (New York Evening Post), Professor of Art at Princeton University. Pleading for smaller museums, he tilted at the enormous Metropolitan (Manhattan) and the Pennsylvania Museums of Art. He advocated decentralization of big U. S. museums into smaller museums each covering a special phase of art. He explained...
...before. The difference of four meals is absurdly out of proportion with the one dollar reduction in price of the new proposal. In other words the man who selects the lower rate will have to pay an average of $.25 for the four extra meals or lose money. At current club or restaurant prices this is impossible or at least unhealthy. Those men not in a position to lose money are still penalized, a situation hardly in accord with the spirit of democracy supposed to be essential to the House idea...
...withstanding our immense accumulation of observations and theory, some of the most baffling mysteries of all astronomy are associated with the planets and satellites of the sun's family. No theory of the origin of the planets is wholly satisfactory, though the current tidal evolution hypothesis, which has developed from the planitesimal hypothesis, accounts for the major features of the system...
...following article on Harvard University was written by B. H. Lehman '11, Professor of English in the University of California. It is reprinted from the current issue of the "California Monthly...