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...Voted down, 51 to 16, the bill to give Army Air Corps officers a special promotion list. (Charles Augustus Lindbergh had spoken for this bill; Assistant Secretary of War Trubee Davison has opposed...
...last week hung for the public to look upon until the middle of September. Of the 16, all fabulously costly and all curiously beautiful, six were the most beautiful and the most costly. These were the pieces in the series called The Hunt of The Unicorn, owned by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Their worth was greater than $1,100,000; millefleurs tapestries, their backgrounds were filled with flowers...
Last week the General Education Board founded by John Davison Rockefeller lost its Director of Studies and Medical Education. This official resigned because he wanted to speak freely about educational matters, to criticize constructively without straining the bonds of obligation. He has since accepted Oxford's invitation to be Caylorian lecturer. His name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards...
...Right Reverend C. H. Brent Hon. '13, of Buffalo, N. Y., Bishop of Western New York, will deliver the principal address and Professor A. T. Davison '06 will conduct the musical program. This service will take the place of the usual service of morning prayers...
...found in the difficulty of training the singers for more frequent meetings of the type. However, similarity of programs is not particularly an evil, when the membership of the audience changes to some extent each time, and when the programs are of such real merit as those Doctor Davison offers. The period of the year from the April vacation to the end of May is not one of all-absorbing scholastic or athletic activity; so the Glee Club does not at that time have such dangerous competition for its members' attention as earlier in the year. In consideration...