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...editorial intimates that the original purpose of the Society has been abandoned "to conform to popular taste or in a search for novelty for its own sake." From the first it has been the policy of the Society to present new trends in contemporary art, not for their freakishness but as a means of informing Cambridge and Boston of modern movements. The Society does in no way depart from this policy in presenting the forthcoming show of the work of Ben Shahn...
...danger constantly threatening the vitality of the Society is that its original purpose may be forgotten either in an effort to conform to popular tastes or in a search for novelty for its own sake. The Society is the only first-hand contact offered the University layman with pioneer thought and technique in painting and sculpture and should shows be chosen for other reasons than that they are honest and capable examples of the forward line in contemporary art then the Society will lose its reason for being...
Died. Sir Ronald Ross, 75, discoverer of the malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito; in London. Composer, poet, playwright, novelist, mathematician, he was called a modern Elizabethan. He entered the Indian Medical Service at 24; began an unofficial search for the malaria-transmitting mosquito at 35. His interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten...
...tropics get into conversation. One is a young scientist returning to Africa to continue his exploration, the other an Anglican missionary going back to his jungle parish. As often happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along, buries himself in the harioning mud and lives by merely breathing through an air hole, and who dis when you put him in water for any length of time...
...friend Col. Robins, now rich and famed, to lunch at the White House. Reformer Robins missed the meal, sent no explanation. He had last been seen leaving a Manhattan club. President Hoover. spreading his alarm on the front page of the nation's Press, ordered a search by Federal agents. Mrs. Robins feared her husband had been kidnapped by gangsters to avenge his Dry sleuthing in Florida last spring. Acquaintances later reported seeing him hurrying around Chicago. Commented Lemuel Parton, oldtime newsman: "Col. Robins, no longer like Mirabeau, has changed a lot. Halsted and West Madison Streets haven...