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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately this constructive suggestion has been anticipated by another educational authority, the late Dr. Rabelais. The monk's visioned Abbaye de Theleme contained all the aids and conveniences thought out in the Dr. Park plan. It went further. The only regulation was "do what you will." But this platform unaccountably failed to attract a constituency. It has remained in darkness for a wheel's full circle. Yet the president of Wheaton College may succeed where the great laugher failed. He has the privilege of being able to confront teachers conclaves with his back to the club message. Rabelais could only...
...exchange professorships is one that ranks high in the Vagabond's private list of things worth preserving in the University. For who suspected as little as he on returning to college this fall that he would have an opportunity to listen in on a lecture at the College de France in Paris or at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg? Both establishments seemed as firmly fixed as any mountain and Mohammed was very much engaged in Cambridge. Yet the magic carpet of the exchange professorship brings both to him in the form of the series of public lectures, being given by Professor...
...de Stael and Chateaubriand," Professor Allard, Emerson...
...de Stael and Chateaubriand," Professor Allard, Emerson...
...voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist Wilson to bedizen her shop. He has designed silver, rugs, furniture, including a modernistic multi-colored bar for Dr. Fenton Taylor of Manhattan. He has painted portraits of Actor Alfred Lunt, sturdy Basque sailors, a Greek priest...