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...present to make anything like a fair appraisal of Sargent's position in art. The vogue that was his a decade or two ago has been succeeded by a tendency to belittle him. Only critics in the future, unaffected either by contemporary popularity or by natural hostility to the dicta of the preceeding generation can be just in their estimate. In any event, Sargent must be granted a place of some importance in American art, and the Museum acknowledged fortunate in possessing such examples of his work. The drab mural specimens in Widener require an antidote before the undergraduate novice...
...Former dicta have forbidden that this surplus be turned to the completion of the new Athletic Building, whose scrawny frame may be destined to strike terror into the hearts of nearby residents for many months to come. But on the other hand, rumour saith that the immovable hath been moved if only slightly, and that the Corporation may reconsider its previous decisions, and leave the path open to the utilization of the surplus...
Lindbergh dicta: "I do not think we have any airports in the U. S. today that may be considered models for the future. Two or three are now being constructed, but we have nothing to compare with those in Europe...
...while to keep us amused. But he has not done it as well as it has been done many times before. He has also chosen to have his characters release certain ponderous sayings from time to time, to keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better said than countless others have said them. In other words, "Caprice" while an amusing play is one which falls considerably short of being worthy stuff either as parlor comedy or as straight social problem drama...
Hearing the above quoted unequivocal, politico-religious dicta, a militant partisan or a non-partisan might seek their source. He would find these statements in The Presbyterian Magazine. He would find that the author of the pronouncements is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, who, as moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.* occupies Presbyterianism's highest eminence...