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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...nationalities. From the age of 33, when the Luxem bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously. He taught in Philadelphia, Paris, New York. His later years were spent at Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully avoid imposing his own or any particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death of Henri | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

BACK in this reviewer's toy-soldier age, which coincided with the early years of the war, there appeared a succession of war stories like Empey's "Over the Top" and Collins' "Outwitting the Hun," that gave him vicariously--and diluted--the thrills of combat. Such books stood on the seven-day shelves of American libraries, and though they protested stoutly and even violently their fairness, they had their little part in arousing the sentiment of 1917. As books, they were fitting for the toy-soldier age. Private Suhren is a definitely more matrue volume than these, and while...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: A Page of Early Spring Novels | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

...salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...GERMAN BREWER IS A HUN, PUT HIM OUT OF BUSINESS BY VOTING FOR PROHIBITION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Busch | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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