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...there are notable exceptions in this exhibition. Istvan Pekary, for instance, in his small canvas called "The Funeral," has with his purposely naive and provincial style given us a picture fairly bristling with emotion. For some reason, his many genre figures scattered all over the picture do not distract us from the central idea...
...Princeton trustees appointed a committee headed by President Wilson to investigate and elaborate the plan. But opposition arose: from Dean West of the Graduate School, who feared that development of the Wilson plan would distract interest from his own school; from ex-President Grover Cleveland, on the Graduate School trustee committee and friend of Dean West; from Dr. Henry van Dyke; from Professor John Grier Hibben, upon whose support Wilson had counted. Outside of Princeton, however, the plan was received with enthusiasm. Press, public, many an alumnus hailed it. Said Harvard's Charles Francis Adams (now U. S. Secretary...
...Trenton, N. J. the Board of Education asked a court injunction against the building of Passaic County Airport across the road from a new township school. Board members feared that low flying aircraft would endanger and distract school occupants...
...country has greater troubles than this wild goose chase to which Congress should address itself. ... I don't want anything like this to distract the minds of the people from the great and fundamental economic conditions they are faced with now. We have large surpluses to eat and wear, yet unemployment is rife. Instead of going off witch hunting, why not create a committee to study why, in the midst of plenty, we are in the midst of want? . . . An economic system that permits that has something wrong with it. ... It isn't the preaching of radicals that creates unrest...
...that of men submitting low admission records. Crucial point that it is, this problem deserves all possible attention; all other explanations of the phenomenon of unsatisfactory college work lead inevitably to the advisability of admitting men with dubious records. No scurrying about after secondary effects should be allowed to distract the attention of those committed to seeing that the right men are allowed the opportunity to try for a Harvard education...