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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Spanish gentleman, born in 1478, was educated at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. In his thirtieth year, he became page to their son, the Infante Don John; he was present at the siege of Granada; and while there, he saw Columbus before his trip to America...
...Phillips Brooks House asking, among others, a question about what life work each man expected to take up, only 72 are undecided. Sixty-one plan to go into, the profession of law after they graduate, while second place in the figures is held by medicine, which attracts, at the present time, 45 from this group of the Freshman Class...
...very difficult at present to make anything like a fair appraisal of Sargent's position in art. The vogue that was his a decade or two ago has been succeeded by a tendency to belittle him. Only critics in the future, unaffected either by contemporary popularity or by natural hostility to the dicta of the preceeding generation can be just in their estimate. In any event, Sargent must be granted a place of some importance in American art, and the Museum acknowledged fortunate in possessing such examples of his work. The drab mural specimens in Widener require an antidote before...
...last year, the debaters will make every effort to present the cases in non-technical language as far as possible, so that the arguments will be readily intelligible to the outsider...
...present", said Professor Black yesterday, "each country collects its own statistics according to its own ideas, which makes it very difficult for a student of foreign problems to put them together and reach any true conclusions. Our job is to make them readily available...