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This is significant of the so-called Mexican Renaissance, which has occurred with-in the past few decades. Several of Mexico's greatest living artists first went to Paris where they thought they were cubists, surrealists, neo-impressionists. But when they got tired of Art for Art's sake they went home and looked around. They saw that no use was being made of native material. The official artists were but feeble, academic imitators of the Spanish school of Zuloaga. Plainly it was impossible to superimpose Spain on Mexico...
Died. Thomas LeBoutellier II, 51, of Manhattan, revolver champion of Europe, brother-in-law of Malcom Stevenson, international polo player; at Westbury, L. I. During the first chukker of a polo match at Meadowbrook Club, Mr. Leboutellier, stricken with heart failure, fell dying from his saddle...
...Wisconsin Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn, one-time Amherst President, began an "experimental" college. His freshmen were to study only Periclean culture, his sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...
...Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton public school children will get no holiday when it rains. . . . Among the Cyr.us Fogg Brackett lecturers this year at Princeton University will be Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western Railway; Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) ; Paul Shoup; president...
...biggest privately owned yacht in the world is the Orion, 333 ft. long and 46 ½ ft. wide. Last week it arrived in the U. S. from the builder's yards at Kiel on its first trip; on board was Owner Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J. The Orion is a white ship, one-funnelled, 3,096 tons, 1,800 h. p. (twin Diesels), with a crew of 54 officers and men (including a purser, a doctor). She cruised to the U. S. from Kiel via the Barbados and Havana. This autumn Yachtsman Forstmann will take...