Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herald of a new awakening, President Conant has demanded a revaluation and reform of secondary school education. The evils of high school and preparatory school training are so entrenched and pernicious that it is incredible that no one has been forward enough to do something about them. Seeing the heart of the problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus...
...Gosh, we have more fun backstage!" Miss Wiman--"Trink" to her intimates--exclaimed, "the kids are so darn swell. And Durante, he's just the sweetest guy. If anybody gets mad at him, it just breaks his heart. Why, he'll do anything to patch up a squabble. So now, whenever we want him to do anything for us, we just pretend to be sore...
Died. Herman Oliphant, 54, general counsel to the U. S. Treasury since 1934; of heart disease; in Washington...
Died. Emma Eurana Dinkey (Mrs. Charles M.) Schwab, 79, wife of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s longtime board chair man; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the first steel works chemist in the U. S., Mrs. Schwab helped her husband in experiments in a private laboratory during the first years of their married life. Later she devoted her time to extensive, unostentatious philanthropy...
Central figure in any investigation of Southern literary life is William Faulkner. This short, reticent Southerner, sharp-eyed as a gambler, lives about as close to the heart of the South as it is possible to get-in Oxford, Miss., a county seat of 2,890 people, 62 miles southeast of Memphis. Historically speaking, nothing much has happened to Oxford since the Yankees burned it 75 years ago. It has a courthouse square, which Mississippi-born Artist John McCrady painted in Town Square (see cut). It has its Confederate monument on which a soldier stands stonily at ease...