Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wednesday, November 11, "Astronomical News," by Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory...
...star talent secured by our contemporary college newspapers aften makes us a bit apologetic about our own home-spun product. Last year the Yale News had an undergraduate columnist of such mettle that recently that paper came forward as publisher of his collected gems at two dollars per copy. Determined to outdo us all, the Daily Princetonian has incorporated Gertrude Stein into its staff. Careful as ever not to appear ostentatious, it does not even advertise its prize, and has made her start from the very botom writing the notice column. Since no one else could have possibly written...
Last week's Chicago Art Institute show carefully avoided any of the extreme schools of U. S. painting, was described by Chicago's ablest critic, Clarence Joseph Bulliet (Chicago Daily News), as "a sedate show of practically unrelieved conservatism." The jury for painting-Edmund Archer, John Steuart Curry, Jerry Farnsworth, Meyric Rogers, Thomas Tallmadge-salved its artistic conscience by giving Mrs. Logan's prize to an unexceptionable if uninspired studio nude entitled Olympia, by capable, hard-working Robert Philipp of Manhattan...
Last week U. S. readers of the Illustrated London News were apprised of Dr. Thoma's success in being the first man to hypnotize a chimpanzee. Not wishing to waste time on aloof or doltish subjects...
NIGHT OUTLASTS THE WHIPPOORWILL -Sterling North-Macmillan ($2.50). A diffuse description of how a small Wisconsin town carried on during the War, by the literary editor of the Chicago Daily News...