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Generally credited with having done more to popularize the doctrine of Evolution than any other man, Huxley was not a scientist of Darwin's stature, was well content to dub himself "Darwin's bulldog." He had other claims to renown. In biology and paleontology he became one of the foremost groundbreakers...
...Congress passed an act providing a gallery in the Capitol to house "statues of two distinguished citizens from each state who were illustrious for their historic renown." Since then 35 states have made contributions to Statuary Hall. A few of the figures are known to every schoolboy (Washington and Lee from Virginia; Daniel Webster from New Hampshire; Andrew Jackson from Tennessee; Samuel Adams and John Winthrop from Massachusetts; John C. Calhoun from South Carolina; Sam Houston from Texas). Most of them, though, are second-rate politicians of the last century whose fame has already faded out of history...
This will be the first time that the beauties of the mermaid have been publicly on display is the Harvard pool, although girls have always been allowed to use the pool under certain circumstances. Besides championship league and college teams, individual swimmers of renown, such as Johnnie Higgins, who won two National Championships last week, will compete. Admission will...
Beside the Tercentenary invitation to the universities themselves, Harvard has also asked individuals of worldwide scholastic renown to attend the Tercentenary Conference which will take place in the two weeks preceding the actual celebration. From Germany 12 such preeminent men were invited and all have accepted. It was thought that among them there was one professor from Heidelberg University, but as was the case with the other replies, University authorities were not certain yesterday...
...Maxfield Parrish inherited his talent from his father. Etcher Stephen Parrish. Comfortably off, he was sent to Haverford college, later to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. There he began experimenting with that deep luminous color with which he was later to win his popular renown. Not until he went to Paris did he learn the trick from copyists of Flemish and Italian primitives. A Maxfield Parrish sky starts with a wash of thin plaster on a prepared board, followed by a coat of pure ultramarine blue. Successive layers of transparent blue glazes are put on with such...