Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maurice Renaud, Victor Maurel and Antonio Scotti, who 30 years ago made his U. S. debut as the Don. Critics everywhere name it one of the world's great operas, some say the greatest. Not for 21 years, until last week, had it been given at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
Current with the Philadelphia Museum report was an article in December Atlantic Monthly by Frank Jewett Mather Jr., onetime editorial writer and art critic (New York Evening Post), Professor of Art at Princeton University. Pleading for smaller museums, he tilted at the enormous Metropolitan (Manhattan) and the Pennsylvania Museums of Art. He advocated decentralization of big U. S. museums into smaller museums each covering a special phase of art. He explained...
...Metropolitan Hysteria. A low-flying plane crashed on a building in crowded Manhattan last fortnight. The police, somewhat hysterical, threatened to require flyers to keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio...
...however, as is earnestly hoped, some revision downward may be made in the minimum board charge, there will be ample opportunity for the existence of clubs which serve one meal a day. Such organizations have a successful prototype in the Metropolitan lunch clubs, and would perform a valuable service in bringing men of different Houses together several times a week. A revision of the club system in this direction would retain most of the real advantages of the present system and do away with the isolated clique tendency which finds its fullest and worst development in so many other American...
That the athletic directors at the two Universities have not publicly endeavored to renew relations has been decried time and again by the metropolitan press. Despite frequent criticism of their policies in allowing the matter to rest until the graduation of the undergraduate bodies who witnessed the affair at close range Mr. Bingham and Dr. Kennedy appear to have followed the wiser course...