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...general would benefit. The Ohio law requires that Ohio delegates to the national party conventions shall go instructed. A muddle might ensue should Ohio have to decide between its two sons, Speaker Nicholas Longworth (Wet) and Senator Frank B. Willis (Dry). *Last week, Dr Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University's department of English, and a twinkle-eyed Democrat, wrote to the New York Times: ". . . But why put it in the negative ? The positive is shorter, clearer and better. 'May I not ?' is less handsome than 'May I ?' 'I do not think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fess Incident | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...that the energy which the Dutchman put into the figures on his canvas had enabled him also to produce a superhuman number of pictures. Yet there have been at times doubts cast on the genuineness of some of these. Four years ago Professor John Charles Van Dyke of the Department of Art & Archeology of Rutgers University published a book in which he asserted his statistics upon Rembrandt's paintings. Last week he published a second volume which completed his findings made over a period of twelve years. Of the paintings, 40 are real Rembrandts, of the drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rembrandt & His School | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...like anything crimson," stated a rather short, jovial middle aged man with dark hair and a well-trimmed Van Dyke beard, "but your kind of Crimson isn't on the sex I prefer to see wearing it." In such a manner Will Durant, noted American philosopher, laughingly started conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last evening while in a taxi on the way to Symphony Hall to debate with Bertrand Russell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Durant and Russell Discuss Varied Aspects of Education | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

HENRY VAN DYKE, 75, Princeton, N. J.; retired as clergyman, active as writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ablest Preachers' | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Born. To Mrs. & Rev. Tertius van Dyke, son of Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke (famed author, onetime Princeton professor, onetime U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg); a son, at Washington, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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