Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done for Stanford has been for the best. They complain, chiefly, that under the Hoover influence-he has been on the Board of Trustees since 1912 -Stanford has changed from a liberal arts college of limited enrolment, which it was founded to be, into an evergrowing institute of technology. None knew better than Herbert Hoover the stipulations of the late Senator Stanford's bequest. But after he had formed his own philosophy for industrial civilization, Hoover said, "It can't be helped. Stanford must be changed." So mass education came in. The oldtime stars of the faculty, like...
...pudding in his arms as he sighted Manhattan's skyline from the deck of the Berengaria. It was consigned to Manhattan's new Hotel Piccadilly, which opened its doors last week. As credentials, Bellhop Vannard brought jealously guarded recipes of Piccadilly the Elder to Piccadilly the Younger. None of these, however, impressed immigration authorities, who rudely consigned bellhop, pudding, recipes, to Ellis Island, until Bellhop Vannard might submit proof he would not become a public charge...
...trans-Pyrenean railway was dedicated. The engineering feat can only be called epochal. For two milleniums and more, Emperors, Kings, men and freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
...Metropolitan Opera Company enjoys many unique advantages, none more noticeable than the prestige and humility which greets every pronouncement made by its Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Last week he announced plans for the coming year. There would be several premieres including: Strauss's already famous Die Aegyptische Helena, in German, with presumably Rethberg or Jeritza, both of whom have sung the role in Europe, singing Helen; Fra Gherardo, Ildebrando Pizzetti's new opera which was sung for the first time a month ago in Milan; and Jonny Spielt Auf, by Ernst Krenek, which is called a "jazz" opera...
...case. When Brandt designs a clotheshorse the thing is as lovely as a statue; his screens arc metal tapestries, executed with the clarity of silhouettes, touched with a unique grace, severe, luxurious and odd. Forty-five, a native of Alsace-Lorraine and a resident of Paris, Edgar Brandt has none of the look of a Latin Quarter esthete; one would perhaps pick him out by appearance as a manufacturer rather than an artist. He talks like an artist, thinks like one, in practical, concrete terms...