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Among returning members of the faculty for the coming year are: John E. Dalton, assistant professor of Business Statistics, who has been associated with the sugar division of the AAA, is returning after an absence of two years; Samuel S. Stratton, assistant professor of Finance is coming back from Pittsburg where he has been on leave of absence for a year while he studied the effect of the NRA code on the steel industry. Ross G. Walker will also be back after an absence of five years. He will teach accounting...
...that he had just bought a book of Leonardo's drawings for 3½ guineas. He was too thrifty to give it to his King and he seems to have forgotten the book entirely. More than 70 years later, early in the reign of George III, a Mr. Dalton reached into a chest at Windsor Castle, pulled out the priceless book of Leonardo drawings...
More than 150 years before, Pompeo Leoni had numbered them. Some time in the 15 years after Mr. Dalton opened the chest, somebody cut out and presumably destroyed about 180 of the 779 drawings. One of these, it is known, was a picture of a handsome young man embracing a hideous crone. The surviving drawings include a superb series of anatomical studies of men, not one of a woman. Kenneth Clark indicates, does not say, that someone in the prudish, provincial court of George III found the 180 in bad taste...
...King's amusing antics and handsome presence are admirably supported by the statuesque beauty of Doris Dalton as Ethel, the copious blonde-topped charms of Ona Munson as Clara, and tab-collared cinema Englishness of Leo Carroll as Sir James...
...professor of City Planning, on leave for the year 1934-35; Calvert Magruder, professor of Law and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law, from September 15, 1934 to June 15, 1935. (previously announced); Samuel S. Stratton, assistant professor of Business economics for the year 1934-35; John E. Dalton, assistant professor of Business Statistics...