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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Verdicts of Sanity | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

There can be little doubt that at present the House Masters are abusing their rights of selection by placing undue emphasis upon the cross-section principle, occasionally for the purposes of discrimination. When several Freshmen conditionally gain admittance to Houses, while two of the most prominent men in the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE SELECTIONS | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

A noted traveller and director of the New England Museum of Natural History, Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, will speak on his explorations of Mount St. Agnes and Mount Sanford, Alaska, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Washburn, Noted Explorer, Speaks on Alaskan Travels | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see p. 65), Dr. Henry Borsook and associates* of the California Institute of Technology offered new hope to neural gia sufferers. The scientists knew that vitamin B 1 (anti-beriberi), which is found in yeast and fresh red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B1 for Tic | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Last week Chicago's dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quizzical Quiz | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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