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Three strokes will make the trip to Kent next week when Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 takes his 150-pound crew down to the Connecticut school for practice during the Easter vacation. Leaving Cambridge Sunday, the oarsmen will have two days' practice on the Housatonic before meeting the Kent School eight on Wednesday...
...conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from Wet to Dry was the high spot of last week's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment on measures to modify or repeal national Prohibition.† In 1918 Mr. Taft, as Yale's Kent Professor of Law, was an avowed Wet. He wrote letters, later widely quoted, to his friend, Allen Lincoln of New Haven, opposing the 18th Amendment, predicting dire results from its ratification (TIME, Oct. 15, 1928). In 1923, as Chief Justice, he made a Yale commencement speech in which he called...
Yale took him back with open arms. It made him Kent Professor of Law, supplied him with an enormous chair to hold his 340 Ibs. In the Taft Hotel, named for him, he had a special office, rent-free, because he was a public character. Then followed eight happy tranquil years of teaching. Taft's older son Robert had graduated from Yale (1910) when his father was in the White House. Charles, much like his father, in manner and mind, was the all-around man of the class of '18. He played basketball, football, was the most popular...
...like most other human enterprises, has its makers, sellers, buyers and commentators. Prominent living makers of art-Matisse, Picasso, Zuloaga, Augustus John, Rockwell Kent-are known at least by name to multitudes of laymen. And almost every literate person has heard of Sir Joseph Duveen. He is, however, neither an artist nor a critic, as laymen have been known to wager. He is, of course, the supersalesman and the most famed name in contemporary art. Extensive buyers of art-Andrew Mellon, Jules Semon Bache, John Ringling-are widely recognized as such...
...Rockwell Kent, artist, author (Voyaging, Wilderness?), inconvenienced by the discontinuance of railroad service at his Ausable Forks, N. Y. farm, wrote the Public Service Commission, saying that for five months no trains had run on the Ausable Forks-Plattsburg branch of the Delaware & Hudson R. R. Said he: "No application was ever made to the commission by the railroad for permission to discontinue service ... the severance of all railroad passenger communication with the main line will injuriously affect the growth of the communities surrounding it, the value of the real estate and the volume of local trade in the communities...