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Died. Richard Davenport Harlan, 71, son of the late U. S. Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan, onetime Presbyterian president of Lake Forest College; of a throat infection; in Washington. His wife died three days prior...
Joseph Striker and Minor Watson as two of the suitors give creditable performances, while Harlan Briggs as the rejected fiance, a local banker, is genuinely comic. Mildred McCoy as the prospective mother just fails to produce a characterization; but is at least that far ahead of the rest of the ladies of the cast...
This statistical finding appears in a book by Dr. Harlan Paul Douglass, 59, research director of the Institute of Social & Religious Research, Manhattan* issued last week by the Institute. The book is a thoroughgoing survey of church federations of 24 cities and two States. The federations had asked the Institute to inspect their condition. Dr. Douglass found their condition unsatisfactory. After more than 20 years activities there is a "general avoidance of any attempt to find a basic philosophical and religious ground-work" for the federation movement. As a rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations...
...article was called "Art v. Yale University," written by William Harlan Hale '31 who, with Selden Rodman '31, bolted from the Yale Literary Magazine, charging that periodical with "staleness, preciosity, clique-atmosphere." Excerpts...
...William Harlan Hale, one of the editors, berated the university in an essay of eight pages for building in the style of a bygone day. "No man and no nation who possessed a life-giving creative sense ever dreamed of copying the previous age", he said. "We associate the phenomenon of imitation with people who are sterile, with eras that whose tendency is retrogression and atavism...