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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American History Plan the University has become gradually aware of President Conant's interest in American civilization and aware, too, that there exists such a civilization. The Reading List for both students and general public, the Bliss prize for undergraduates not in the American field, and last month the establishment of an Extra-curricular Counselor for Freshmen; these have nursed along the Plan to the point where Harvard men are self-conscious about American culture. Soon, one gathers from the restless anticipation of certain faculty members, the Plan will attack the Houses on a new front, when next fall...
Venetian. At the Metropolitan, the Old Master of the year continued to make news after a triumphant first U. S. exhibition last month at the Chicago Art Institute.* This was the 18th-Century Venetian, Giambattista Tiepolo, a full-blown baroque virtuoso far removed from the devout art of the Middle Ages. Not half so rich in paintings as the Chicago show, the Metropolitan's boasted more of Tiepolo's round, rapid sketches and one of his ceilings, famed for the azure into which he tossed swirling goddesses, angels and garlands of cherubs to float upward, bottoms down...
...hundred years ago next month a group of top-hatted Manhattanites, led by their mayor, put out from a shaky pier in the North River to cheer the arrival of the British steamer Sirius, which, with 40 passengers, had made the voyage from Ireland in 18 days. Though the U. S. ship Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built...
...Captain Daniel W. Tomlinson was working on plans for substratosphere flying for T. W. A.'s President Jack Frye. At the same time Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co. was building the great high-altitude Air Corps' B-17 bombers which last month jauntily flew 10,000 miles around South America. Dissatisfied with Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible, T. W. A. became sold on Boeing's idea of a big passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps...
Most urgent plea to arise from the Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington last month was for easier credit. Lately the Senate Banking & Currency Committee has been studying ways of providing it. Last week, while a crowd of small businessmen were reiterating their need before the committee, two Government officials appeared, one with the first sound analysis of the problem, the other with a bold remedy...