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Hottest news in sizzling Genoa last week was the final report of that thoroughgoing savant. Dr. Jean Charcot of L'Institut de France, upon Christopher Columbus, famed No. 1 Genoese...
...York University bounded out of its academic bed last week with a new, learned periodical, the Air Law Review. It was the first U. S. institution to establish a full school of Aeronautics with help of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Therefore it considered itself having a preemption on academic Aeronautics. Last August N. Y. U. roused itself when Northwestern University at Chicago set up an Air Law Institute on the model of the Koenigsberg Institut für Luftrecht, established in 1924 as the world pioneer. N. Y. U. promised itself a similar institute...
...Among our sculptors who is the one that best represents today the art of the old Institut, the abominable firehouse art? Assuredly M. Moreau-Vauthier. He has perhaps had his hour. It is past...
There died last winter a mediocre musician named Messager, who was, nevertheless, Membre de l'Institut. In due time the Institut searched for another musician to immortalize in his place. They turned to old M. Vincent d'Indy, writer of symphonies of great fame, excellence, popularity. But old M. d'Indy would have none of it. Sternly he spoke: "I am 78 years old?it is really a little late to think of me." The next choice, Composer Paul Dukas, protested that the Institut was making fun of him. So, finally, the Institut turned to the man whom many regard...
...matter had now become a national scandal with precisely that touch of genius which France relishes. Comoedia published an announcement: WANTED: A VOLUNTEER FOR THE INSTITUT! "Come, come, gentlemen," concluded the article, "who wants to join the Institut? What the devil! It's a worthy movement...