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...that Joseph Rosenstein is well started on the road to recognition he has a well-fitting cutaway as well as a dress suit. The cutaway he wore last week at an Orchestra Hall recital, for which boxes were taken by such important patrons as Charles Henry Swift, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Harold Fowler McCormick, Conductor Stock. Pianist Josef Hofmann was playing two blocks away but a good-sized audience came to hear Rosenstein, heartily applauded his poise throughout a difficult program, his accurate speed in Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, his purity of tone enhanced...
...first William Belden Noble Lecture for the year 1930-31 will be delivered by the Rev. Rufus Matthew Jones. Professor of Philosophy. Haverford College, tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The subject will be "A Great Awakening...
...Grail is further suggested by such symbols as vines, the Star of Bethlehem, the plate of loaves and fish. There is much evidence to show that the Chalice could not date later than the ist Century. That date has been challenged by some experts, including Professor Charles Rufus Morey of Princeton, but is supported by Professors Arthur Bernard Cook of Cambridge and Josef Strzygowski of Vienna. If they are correct, then Kouchakji's Chalice may indeed be Galahad's Grail, the true cup of Jesus. For history records no other important Christian cup in the century...
Architect Hood might have talked about money. The Fair is being promoted financially by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and his brother Rufus Cutler. Its total cost has been estimated at $60,000,000, about $16,000,000 of which has been raised or promised. Because growing Chicago has little available land to give to the Fair, it is to be built partly on artificial islands superimposed on the muddy bottom of Lake Michigan, later to be turned into parks and playgrounds. The construction of this land alone will be costly. Two or three of the solid, honest buildings which...
...thieves, that genial Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale leaves the door of his New Haven home unlocked, so that friends may come in and borrow the books he is sent for review, of which there are several hundred stacked on a table adjacent. An old red setter named Rufus (which color-blind Dr. Phelps says he sees march about as a green dog) guards the books, knows the patrons of this "lending library," barks at the approach of any unaccustomed person...