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George J. W. Goodman '32 of Newton, Neil J. Smelser '52 of Phoenix, Arizona and Adams House and William V. Whitehead '50 of Brookline will each be eligible for two years free study in any subjects they choose at Oxford University beginning in October, 1932. Of the other winners, four represent Princeton, three Yale...
Representative Richard A. Reuther (D-Williamstown) charged that the State Board has overridden local boards and local zoning laws. Officials of Lexington, Newton, and Billerica also lodged complaints against the A.B.C. Representative James C. Bayley (R-Boston) meanwhile filed a bill calling for a seven-man commission to carry on an investigation and report on the A.B.C...
...Writes Newton in the British journal, World Review: "The abstract artist . . . in his search for ultimate purity has achieved a kind of auto-castration, and in so doing he has made himself sterile. The forms and colors with which he 'animates' his canvas can never link themselves to his visual experience; they can only express his visual imagination. That thrilling orgasm in which a Titian or a Fra Angelico can make the visible world his own and beget a work of art that combines the essence of himself with the essence of the place and the time...
...months; at 2½ he was memorizing Bible passages. At three he was preaching over the back of a chair to his parents on Sunday afternoons. He always had "a good loud voice," and he thinks his voice got him his first pulpit. In his first year at Newton Theological Institution, Baptist Potter astonished the congregation at Dover, N.H. by preaching right through the racket of a Boston & Maine train passing by just outside. Promptly they extended him a call-provided he would get ordained and married. He obliged, and took over his first parish...
...Selected Letters of Henry Adams, edited by Newton Arvin. Memorable commentary, mostly disenchanted, on two generations of U.S. life, by a brilliant and introspective man who grew up thinking that the presidency was a family trade (TIME...