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Had amiable Dr. Margaret Barclay Wilson heard the roundelay as a display of her old cook books was set up in the New York Academy of Medicine building last week, she would have applauded. She, professor of physiology & hygiene at Manhattan's Hunter College,* dotes goodhumoredly on any reference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Culinary Bibliophile | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Making a classic analogy of the Harvard student's attitude with that of the ancient Greek. Dr. Lowell stated that his university's object was "the cultivation of physical excellence in young men." This policy supersedes the interest in their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Attitude | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

Harvard's and Technology's relative athletic purity affords the engineering cynic opportunity for a few sneers at Dr. Lowell's statements. Such cynicism is a bold front to hide a "sour-grape" state of mind. Our Greek attitude is perfect what the Institute should worry about is the imperfect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Attitude | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

For safety's sake, no advance news was given of the route that the King and Queen would take in their ride from Quirinal Palace to Vatican Palace. The huge oval of St. Peter's Square was kept free of spectators. From dawn on the day appointed, crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Kneeling Majesty | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

To the King and Queen it was all new and strange. Although the corridors they marched through, the stairs they climbed, were familiar to most Romans, Their Majesties had only seen them in photographs. Right and left they peered like tourists. In the Hall of St. John, antechamber to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Kneeling Majesty | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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