Word: picabia
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Arthur Howland Baker, Jr. '34, Thayer Academy; Lorenzo Martinez de Picabia, Jr. '34, St. Mark's; Joseph Francis Ferriter '34, Choate; Roger Sherman Greene '34, Country Day; Herbert Marshall Howe '34, St. Georges; Chester Harding King '34, Kent; John Maier '34, Hill; John Taylor Gilman Nichols '34, Belmont Hill; Herbert Russell Pierce, Jr. '34, Noble and Greenough; Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Milton; Edward Eaby Stowell '34, St. Paul's School; Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, Phillips Andover; William Wemple '34, Loomis...
...Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar (brand not noted: Author Coates advertises everything but cigars}. Significance: Ford Madox Ford calls this "not the first but the best Dada novel." Dadaism is extinct. Fathered by Painter Francis Picabia, mothered by Poet Tristan Tzara, Dadaism was born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916, when Poet Tzara, 20, thus christened it (in verse) : "Dada is not a literary school. . . . Anonymous Society for the Exploitation of Ideas, Dada has 391 different attitudes and colors according to the sex of the president...
...Plummer '31 will represent football in the Gore Hall Committee; W. S. Taylor '31 in McKinlock; M. M. Picabia '31 in Smith; and J. L. Madden '31 in Standish...