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Last year, Dr. Abraham Flexner, philosophical critic of educational systems, made a thorough survey of American, English, and German Universities, concentrating in large measure on the undergraduate college. In the present Atlantic Monthly he turns his attention specifically to the graduate schools of American Universities and with his usual trenchant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLEXNER REFLECTS | 3/22/1932 | See Source »

Last week died N'Gi, famed gorilla of the Washington zoo. Ill two weeks with a chest cold, he was kept alive in an oxygen tent until one lung gave out and he succumbed to "general collapse, weakness and total loss of appetite." N'Gi was five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: End of N'Gi | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University has been appointed the second incumbent of the William James Lectureship for the first half of next year, J. H. Woods '87, chairman of the department of Philosophy announced yesterday. John Dewey, professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at Columbia University, was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOVEJOY IS APPOINTED AS WILLIAM JAMES LECTURER | 3/18/1932 | See Source »

Professor Turner, who was born at Portage, Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1884, and after a year in newspaper work became an instructor at the same institution. He then took a graduate course at Johns Hopkins, returning to the University of Wisconsin as an assistant professor of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: F. J. TURNER, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, DIES AT 71 | 3/16/1932 | See Source »

Said Ethel Barrymore, throatily: "It seems to me, sitting at this table with Hauptmann, as if I were sitting at a table with Beethoven, Heine, Goethe - and Hauptmann. Thank you. I can say no more." Actress Barrymore sat down, sobbed gently into a lace handkerchief. Occasion was a dinner at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 14, 1932 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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