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...Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 79; John Philip Sousa, 77; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 74; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir...
...midst of this curious controversy, from the peace of his porticoed yellow mansion "Avalon" in Princeton's Bayard Lane, emerged 79-year-old Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the community's resident Grand Old Man, minister, Wartime Navy chaplain, litterateur (Fisherman's Luck, The Man Behind the Book). He came not to comment on the alleged "smoothie complex" but he had heard that the town council was thinking of routing intercity busses down his and other residential streets. He came to protest. He appealed for the preservation of "the beauty, tranquillity and safety of Princeton, the most beautiful...
From a crinkle in the Laurentian Mountains of eastern Quebec, which Princeton's Henry Van Dyke once described as "Nature with her teeth bare and her lips scarred," 30 naturalists last week returned by steamer to their homes in Canada and the U. S. They had spent a fortnight at a Canadian Biological Conference discussing and attempting to phrase the natural laws which govern the alternating plenitude and scarcity of wild life in Canada...
Attacks on the authenticity of the 26 presumable Rembrandts in the Metropolitan are nothing new. In 1923 Dr. John Charles Van Dyke, professor of the history of art in Rutgers University, announced that in his opinion there were no genuine Rembrandts in the Metropolitan; further, that there were only 35 genuine Rembrandts in the world.* And in the past six or seven years a Scotch chemist named Arthur P. Laurie has been travelling from museum to museum with his microscope, his X-ray and ultra violet machines, casting doubt upon half the Rembrandts of Europe...
...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 of the Navy): "Your theory of 'quads' seems to me more nearly...