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...Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75 will go to James W. Fitch '50 for his essay "The Adventure of the Caballero de Los Espejos" while Harold C. Martin 1G, is the winner of the Ruskin Prize. Martin's winning essay was entitled "The Theory and the Practice: Ruskin on Literature...
...Middle Ages spent hundreds of years destroying the grandeur that was Rome and rebuilding it in their own image-only to have it razed in turn by the headstrong men of the Renaissance. The process has never stopped: Art Pundit John Ruskin, making a pilgrimage to the ancient refectory of Santa Croce in the 19th Century, found it had become a bustling carpet factory; to view what remained of its frescoes he was obliged to scale a loom. He saw a whole street of Florence, including the quarters of Donatello and Bronzino, torn down to make room for a cheap...
...stipends available from Czechoslovakia are for the study of music and art in Prague, Brno, and Bratislavia, the five grants from Ruskin College, Oxford are for the study of labor relations. Applicants must be active members of a labor union to be eligible for the latter...
From then to the outbreak of World War I, young Socialist Attlee worked with Sidney and Beatrice Webb for the repeal of the Poor Law, lectured at Ruskin College, Oxford, on trade unionism and trade-union law, and later on social science at the London School of Economics. He became a member of the Fabian Society and of the Independent Labor Party...
...going fast . . . The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being." -John Ruskin Six thousand feet above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years and his 20,000 flying hours, Pilot Laurens Claude flicked the switches, cutting the bad power plant and feathering its propeller. On her three good...