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...important, must be nearly as well equipped financially. The possibilities of the cloister as the best milieu for academic life were exhausted some centuries ago; the modern man of letters must be actruly modern man, and if for no other reason than that of keeping in communication with the progress of men similarly engaged on the other side of the globe, he cannot live in monastic seclusion. As hostile to the American mind, trained in Hoover individualism, as clerical support is a public system that might be scented with State Socialism. Beside private philanthropy, there is no other means...
...statement on p. 56 of TIME for Feb. 25 that the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society has been awarded to only two U.S. citizens is not correct...
...Progress Medal was awarded to F. E. Ives of Philadelphia for his work in three-color photography; and in 1923, to N. E. Luboschez, who, although he was living in England at the time, was an American citizen. If these names are added to those of Alfred Stieglitz and George Eastman, it has thus been awarded to four American citizens. In addition to these, in 1928 the medal was awarded to Dr. S. E. Sheppard, who, although a British subject, has carried on the greater part of the researches for which the medal was awarded in Rochester...
...another Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...
Another legendary deity who may well have watched the sanguinary progress of Mexicans, last week, is Xochiquetzal (see map), ancient goddess of both licit and illicit love, the patroness of mothers, and especially the tutelary deity of women who accompany and gratify soldiers marching to battle. So little has Mexico changed through all the ages, that last week much of the rough camp work and cooking for both rebels and federals was done by such patriotic women...