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...Mary Newcomb is the lady of the title and she retired from the action with the majority of laurel leaves. Virtually unknown before the opening night, she took her place among our leading lady agonizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...Germany, Zöllner, Fechner, and Weber, all distinguished scientists, were confirmed spiritualists. In the United States, similar organizations have enjoyed the membership?although few of these men have been more than merely open-minded on the subject?of the late Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins, Simon Newcomb, Edward C. Pickering (astronomers), Henry P. Bowditch, Charles S. Minot, S. Weir Mitchell (physicians), William James, G. Stanley Hall, James Hervey Hyslop (psychologists and philosophers). Dr. Hyslop (died 1920) was the only one of these who could be said to be definitely converted, so much so, in fact, that he gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirits | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...Education of the American Institute of Architects, William Emerson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Some Results of the First Year's Work in the Formation of the New Series of Photographs of Sculpture, Clarence Kennedy, Smith College Present Day Art in the South, Cause and Effect, Ellsworth Woodward, Sophile Newcomb College Business Saturday, April 7 Fogg Art Museum at 8 P. M. A. B. Davies, Duncan Phillips, Washington The Appreciation of Art, A. K. Coomarasway, Museum of Fine Arts The Art Division of the American Ceramic Society, E. M. Blake, New York City Della Quercia in Lucca, G. G. Kings, Bryn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ART ASSOCIATION WILL OPEN MEETING TOMORROW | 4/5/1923 | See Source »

Students of the Louisiana Girls' College, Newcomb, having failed in an " intelligence test to determine their knowledge of every day subjects," instituted a similar examination of 23 members of the Faculty. The results were discouraging. Al Jolson was found to be a wrestling champion; sequins were fish; Maraschino, well-known cherry, was a premier of Russia; and Filet Mignon was an opera by Puccini. It is understood that intelligence is not a popular subject at the college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morons? | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...sects. J, Q, Y New Lecture Hall Mr. Masson's sect. T Harvard 3 Mr. Roberts's sects. H, M, U New Lecture Hall Mr. Untereiner's sects. C, L, S Zoological Lect.-rm. Economics 4a Berolzheimer-Emond Sever 5 Fairbank-Kole Sever 6 Lally-Morse Sever 8 Newcomb-Zinn Sever 11 Engineering 141 Pierce 213 Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lecture-room Fine Arts 2b Robinson French I, I, II, III Emerson D German 8 Sever 18 German 25a Emerson D Government 4 Harvard 2 Greek B, II Sever 30 History 13a Abrams-Livingstone Sever 29 Lucas-Wood Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE EXAMINATIONS FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW | 1/29/1923 | See Source »

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