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...something of this sort is done Columbia must remain one of those colleges which pays the penalty, if penalty it be, of insisting upon the primacy of intellectual ideals and intellectual accomplishments." Many a university official agreed in principle with Dr. Butler, few with his proposal as it stood. Forthright in approval were Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University ("Would be glad to enter such a combination"); President Daniel L. Marsh of Boston University ("Full accord"); President William Wistar Comfort of Haverford College ("Perfectly evident"). Less sure of the scheme as it stood were Dean of Men Fraser...
...wealthy, forthright statesman who startled the Imperial Conference in London last week by crying "Canada First!", adding that he expected his fellow Prime Ministers to cry their countries likewise, was of course His Majesty's Prime Minister in the Dominion of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett, bachelor...
Ohio. Renominated without opposition by Republicans were Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch and Governor Myers Y. Cooper, both Drys. Democrats nominated for the Senate over four Drys or weaslers Robert Johns Bulkley, 49, Cleveland attorney, forthright Wet, onetime (1911-15) Congressman. Nominee Bulkley helped carry Cleveland for Smith in 1928, was supported this year by Newton Diehl Baker, Scripps-Howard newspapers, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The McCulloch-Bulkley campaign will be a clear-cut Wet-&-Dry contest. To George White, who as chairman of the Democratic National Committee managed the 1920 Cox campaign for President, went the Democratic gubernatorial...
...Calder, Allan Clark., Hunt Diederich, Charles Grafly, Malvina Hoffman, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide Maillol, Paul Manship. Edward McCartan, Robert Tait McKenzie, Charles Gary Rumsey, Mahonri Young, William Zorach. Those who inspected them were in full accord with Borough President Henry Hesterberg of Brooklyn, who in his opening address made the forthright comment: "This to my mind is a very great proposition." But fine, frequent and varied as are its temporary exhibits, it is Brooklyn Museum's permanent collections which sustain its reputation. Among these: the Avery collection of Chinese cloissonne; a collection of Xapoleana unsurpassed in the U. S., donated...
Bach's Suite No. 3 in D by Désiré Defauw and the Orchestra of the Brussels Royal Conservatory (Columbia, $6)-A vigorous, forthright reading of Bach's most popular orchestral suite. A sombre Corelli saraband is played by Enrique Fernandez Arbós and the Madrid Symphony as filler for the last record...