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Vital. "All fine works of art are vital, not with the vitality of topical social problems but with the vitality which seems to make a picture alive. . . ." Thus some-what unnecessarily announcing himself as a non-social painter, Victor de Pauw displayed 30 paintings at the Charles Morgan Gallery. Most were good & alive, though many were over facile. A great source of vitality to Artist de Pauw: circuses, and especially clowns. Unlike his great predecessor in this field, Toulouse-Lautrec (see below), Artist de Pauw composes better than he draws...
...higher learning, after Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's spectacular purge of 179 presidents, deans, professors. When Bilbo's successor reinstated the purged pedagogs, Mississippi was returned to favor. Currently in academic Coventry are Harris Teachers College (St. Louis). Rollins College, Brenau College (Gainesville, Ga.), De Pauw University and the U. S. Naval Academy. No loyal Association member will take a job at any of these institutions...
Robert E. B. Allen of Champaign, Illinois, A.B. De Pauw 1926, A.M. University of Illinois 1930, now an instructor in English at the University of Illinois...
...John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn face was born in Indiana 56 years ago. Graduated from De Pauw University, he went to Oklahoma at the turn of the Century, practiced law, plunged into state politics. He served two inconspicuous terms in the House before going to the Senate in 1927. His first love is Oklahoma oil, his second, more money for everyone. The 71st Congress ended in failure and confusion...
...Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president of Olivet College (Mich.) for two years. Before that he was for eleven years president of the University of Washington, where it is still said that his wife forbade him to smoke cigarets...