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Banners and flags floated in the offshore breeze from the walls of the buildings which formed its University. Beyond, and nearer the sea, lay a brown-stone edifice handsome in its simplicity, dedicated to the Christian Church. Beside this building a most peculiar structure leaned. Round in shape, and encircled with columns, it was the leaning belfry that had brought more fame to Pisa than its prowess as a seaport or the renown of its University. About the base of this leaning tower a gathering of men had formed, who, straining their eyes, were gazing toward the topmost...
...BUMMEL is what Germans call al fresco funmaking. Below, with a half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John...
...cultural potentialities of the Union." While this ambitious program fell short of complete realization, the Union and its friendly atmosphere assumed an important position in the affections of the Class of 1935. This spirit was taken up by the Classes of 1936, 1937 and carried to a point nearer to the ideal of the donor...
Last week's examination given to 530 students in a first-year survey course in the humanities, set an "open book" record for youth and number of examinees. A sample question: "Is Hellenistic science or medieval science nearer akin to the science of the Newtonian epoch? In what ways?" A question TiMEreaders should be able to answer without notes: "Give one example of a case where...
...Assembly voted to repudiate the term "Modernist" which the Cleveland Plain Dealer had applied to it when it censured the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions last fortnight. "Conservative" being nearer its mood, it continued to flout the small faction of Fundamentalists in its midst. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, as clerk of the Assembly, despatched an airmail letter to the Independent Board in Philadelphia demanding a certified list of its officers and members, who by Assembly vote are now subject to discipline by their presbyteries...