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...more handsome Hunter is rising in The Bronx, but in the meantime classes are crowded, jammed in one after another, some in a 32nd Street loft, some in a 52nd Street public school. Many a Hunter girl walks blocks to college, often carrying lunch which she eats in the basement. Half the girls have outside, part-time jobs. A "tradition" of planting ivy from historic places was begun last year in The Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith...
...with the growth of musical appreciation all over the U. S., they still refuse to be convinced by musical verdicts other than their own. For 15 years Chicago has been aware of Leo Sowerby, the redhaired, bespectacled young man who on Sundays sits soberly gowned in the organ loft at St. James's Cathedral. Chicago recognizes him as one of the most important U. S. composers. But New Yorkers who went to last week's Philadelphia Orchestra concert were not deeply impressed by the fact that Conductor Eugene Ormandy had chosen to play Sowerby's Prairie. Listeners...
...most important difference is in the conditions under which a press photographer must work. The group gathered around the free coffee and doughnuts behind the stadium press stands is very likely to be the same as that sitting on the stairs to the organ loft of the new Chapel, but whether in the Lowell House common room or on Soldiers Field the cameraman must record the features of the celebrities with speed and certainty...
Meanwhile the backwash of the tidal wave engulfed 1,533 small ships, damaged 85, sent alarming shivers along the steel spine of the liner Heian Mara, 400 mi. out at sea. Rushing on, the tidal backwash struck the Island of Hawaii (3,500 mi. from Japan) as a loft. wave which made things exciting on the beach. In Tokyo, while efficient Japanese clerks totaled up the disaster statistics. Director General Sinichi Kumitomi of the Central Seismological Observatory said: "I believe that this earthquake was more violent at its epicentre than that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo...
...Philadelphia suburb of Merion he has built (behind a loft. spite fence) a French Renaissance chateau that contains the greatest collection of modern art in the U. S., one of the greatest in the world. Dr. Barnes is no rich dunce with a fondness for pretty pictures. To occupy the spare time of his little factory staff he gave a course of lectures, assisted by his friend, Philosopher John Dewey. Since Artist William Glackens first got him interested in painting, he has traveled widely, read voraciously. His book The Art in Painting is a standard work on modern art. Dealers...