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In the twelfth century, when the reputation of Abelard was drawing thousands of students to Paris, the masters or teachers of the Liberal Arts there formed a gild or corporation in order to keep up standards and protect their interest. After the candidate had resided a certain number of years...
Born 55 years ago in the Italian province of Catanzaro, white-maned Giuseppe Donato has long enlivened Philadelphia with artistic disputation. In 1915 he sued Chocolate Tycoon Milton Snavely Hershey for refusing to accept a marble group called Dance of Eternal Spring which he had ordered for a fountain on...
In his career as a Public Enemy, "Snorkey" or "Scarface" Capone has been publicly accused of many a foul crime, including murder. He has served one year in prison, for carrying a gun. It was generally admitted that he might have wriggled out of that sentence if he had wanted...
CONSERVATION OF THE FAMILY- Paul Popenoe-Williams & Wilkins ($3). How widespread and militant are the "enemies" of the family is conjectural. And how effectively their convictions (or lack of them) might be refuted by a treatise soundly but exclusively sociobiological, is also a question. Nevertheless, Biologist Popenoe's sound...
"Let's have a nice, quiet lane in Central Park to be set apart for the figures of religious founders from Buddha to the Bab, and let the devotees of these masters meet in friendly disputation with the soon- to-be ex-Mayor Hylan as umpire or Comptroller Craig...