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Once push the hesitating male upon the platform, and he will probably admit the advantages in this debating. Nothing could more surely force him to abandon his unadorned logic for a freer, more appealing style. His opponents will use logic, but of an entirely different kind adapted to winning an audience. He will have to pay regard to the antagonism which his usual trip-hammer, hard hitting methods will surely raise in minds which are persuaded not coerced. Such training is the next logical step in humanizing college debating...
...American Federation of Arts and the American Association of Art Directors have recorded themselves in its favor. President Harding is said to be willing to consider the plan. The Department's duties, under the bill, would include oversight of the National Gallery of Art, including the Freer Gallery; close cooperation with the Commission of Fine Arts- the group of eminent artists who serve without compensation to advise and judge on construction of public buildings, monuments and other art matters; cultivation of international relations in the arts, and fostering of American artists' interests in foreign exhibitions; promotion...
...Fortune, a mild little comedy, is played with extraordinary verisimilitude?with delightful warmth and grace. Salome, of course, is a more pretentious production and not quite such a successful one. Sydney Kirkpatrick made an admirably repulsive Herod and Solomon Bruce as the flea-bitten Jokanaan was noteworthy. Salome (Evelyn Freer) danced circumspectly?in fact she was oddly reminiscent of the Daily Dozen, at times ? but her interview with Jokanaan's removable top was horridly effective...
...among the undergraduates. It also stressed the possibilities of the college paper as an intermediary between the faculty and undergraduates. Among the less important recommendations submitted in their report were the encouraging of interest in other colleges, the benefits of a healthy communication column, and the necessity for a freer discussion of abstract questions in editorials...
Other noted American painters are there, but the paramount distinction of the Freer collection is that it contains the world's finest and most complete examples of Asiatic art. Both Europe and Asia must go to Washington to study Asiatic...