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...DEWITT Fox, M.D. Silver Spring...
Time was when Michael Solomon was known as just about the most contented teacher in The Bronx. His subject was Latin, and when he first started at the DeWitt Clinton High School in 1908, almost every pupil went at least through Caesar. Even as late as 1923, when he became head of the department, he could boast 16 teachers of Latin on his staff...
...year, as Michael Solomon greeted his first class ("Salve, pueri ..."), he noticed that there were fewer & fewer faces before him. One by one, his colleagues left the school, for the time came when there were not enough pupils to go around. Last year, out of 4,000 students in DeWitt Clinton High School, only 70 signed up for Latin, and the advanced and elementary classes had to be combined...
...editions, Lindner's erudition awed his staff. He was an authority on the theater, a patron of the opera and symphony, a collector of Japanese prints and a dryly witty talker on such topics as 19th century literature. Largely self-taught, he was graduated from Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School and worked on several magazines and dailies as a reporter, ad manager and editor before he was spotted by Hearst's Prince of the Realm, Arthur Brisbane, who took him on as his assistant. At 31, Newsman Lindner was sent to Detroit to run the ailing...
...lights in the coves and over the desks have gone directly underneath the 27 sky lights. Their installation is the first major lighting repair in the building since 1915, according to Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, University Librarian. The lights in the East and West rooms are still being replaced, and the work should be completed by the end of next week. Metcalf was unable to give a specific cost figure for the repairs, but said that they were "very expensive...