Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GOETHE says in his old age that all his works were but parts of one great confession. It has been claimed that this was true of every artist and it probably is, though the dramas or Schiller and the Epics of Homer may offer some difficulties to the interpreter, and the works of Shakespeare, seen under this view, have not yet given the last answer to the question, whether Bacon or Shakespeare. There are, however, writers whose life and work proceed hand in hand in such a way that each new work is on its face a distinct confession...
...scholarship competitions conducted annually at the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. Last month two Yale graduate students won Prix de Rome scholarships, in painting and sculpture (TIME, May 16). Last week the Prix de Rome judges decided the 1927 competition in architecture and again the winner was a Yale student-Homer Fay Pfeiffer of Kansas City, Kan., graduate of the University of Illinois. For his design of a small-city art museum, Mr. Pfeiffer can now spend three years at the American Academy in Rome with all expenses (about $7,000) paid...
...well-known American tendency for joining seems to have spread even to those who are supposed to look askance at committing themselves, the rampant and juvenile variety of atheists. In The World's Work for June Homer Croy gives a survey of organizations which seem to be flourishing in certain schools and universities; united under the simple title of the Junior Athiest League, they include such formidable local societies as the Society of the Godless, God's Black Sheep, The Devil's Angles, and the Legion of the Damned; all sponsored by that non-athletic 4-A which seems...
...convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in Chicago last week, President Homer Buckley of Buckley, Dement & Co., Chicago, said: "The theory [that the customer is always right] is sound because 99% of the people are honest. The other 1% takes advantage of the practice and the store may lose on the deal, but the loss is compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data...
...Homer, 2 to 3 o'clock in Memorial Hall...