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...admissions committee. Autocratically it invites each U. S. artist whom it considers worthy of the honor to submit the canvas that he considers most typical of his recent work. Though no prizes are given the show is not without its rewards, because the museum has set aside a fund ot $20,000 to buy pictures for its own collection. Almost all the other canvases are for sale...
...aware of the fact that the Morro Castle tragedy made heroes of a handful of Coast Guardsmen down the Jersey shore because it has not reached the newspapers. I visited the Shark River Coast Guard Station and had the honor ot meeting Chief Boatswain's Mate M. M. Hymer who, with his crew of four men, picked up 96 living persons from the sea and towed 70 more in other boats, to safety. Their 26-ft. self-bailing surfboat was the first on the scene. They plucked 14 from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately...
...Little. But big women in big jobs, while they might be shining examples, are ot Mrs. Reid's sole interest. Keenly attentive was she to a Conference speaker who dealt with the whole army of U. S. women workers, which has mounted from 5,320,000 at the Century's turn to double hat size today. Equally significant was he swelling proportion of professionals in the ranks: 9% in 1910, 40% in 1930. But woman's place in business and industry is not helped by the fact that the number of women in jobs is today greater...
...opening of the reading room and the stacks will be a special blessing to graduate students and instructors, for whom the hours after six o'clock constitute the only convenient time for study and research, and to undergraduates living outside the Houses, who have hitherto had no access ot library facilities for their evening study. The restoration of the old hours will also end the congestion in the stacks which has resulted from the increased volume of work to be done in the afternoons and it well mean an increase in the opportunity for the borrowing of books without breaking...
Bitterly righteous was the wrath last week of Editor John P. Barden of the University ot Chicago's Daily Maroon. Accusing the Chicago Tribune of "unethical journalism," of "deliberate misuse of the freedom of the press," of bad taste, folly and falsehood, he said that the "world's greatest newspaper" could not be called a newspaper at all, but only "Colonel Gump McCormick's daily indignation was expression an of opinion...