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...thirsting for knowledge is certainly becoming more and more prevalent and it is only just that the fountain-heads of learning should be called upon for help. At the same time, Dr. Butler cannot possibly continue to have conferences with everyone who wants "culture"; nor can Dr. Hibben compile a new set of books for every applicant. There are enough dependable sources of advice without memorializing the college presidents. Most of them have their hands fairly full...
...restrictions do not suit this lover of hard truths and of open fields. If he could do exactly as he chose, I imagine that one would find him at any time of year on that rise in the road near South Shaftsbury, sitting on the back porch by the fountain, surrounded by his wife and his four children, thinking, only occasionally selecting a thought which he considers worth putting on paper. That is why his volumes of poetry appear so rarely. The Selected Poems this spring will be the first since Mountain Interval in 1916. Robert Frost's poetry...
Arrangements for the tour were completed by Raymond F. Schindler, George Gordon Battle, Frank Waterman of the fountain pen company, and other New York lawyers and business...
Rheinold Mory, sculptor: " I designed a statue of a nude Venus for a public fountain in a suburb of Atlantic City, but the city council would not accept it. So I clothed her in a one-piece bathing suit and hung and draped a cape over her left arm, and the council accepted...
Society, Sophisticates, and a Highly Modernized Fountain of Youth...