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...Soberest group of alumni were 150 who were to attend the alumni school at University of Michigan, established a year after Lafayette's. Michigan's alumni were to put in a full week (taking up to five courses of four lectures each), paid $10 tuition. Most popular course: National and International Relations. Also popular: golf instruction by University coaches...
Last week American Export's owners pulled off a stunt almost as daring as William Coverdale's plan. To finance the air service, they launched a $924,000 common stock issue in Wall Street, where money for the soberest of schemes has lately been scarce. A Lehman Brothers syndicate, which offered the 88,000 shares at $10.50 apiece, called the flotation "successful...
...subconscious," grand catch-all of irrational human nature, came into literature through James Joyce, into painting through Surrealism. The soberest writers and painters are glad of it, reckoning dreams and fantasies and unconscious motives part of the subject matter of art. They agree with most people in disliking Surrealism's fakes, faddists, exhibitionists. They value the systematic study of the subconscious by qualified scientists. Last week in Manhattan this respectful alliance between artists and psychiatrists was demonstrated in the first public exhibition of its kind yet held in the U. S.-106 pictures made by pathological patients at Manhattan...
...interest that he does not feel when he is merely being lectured at, collectively. "Being pumped into," said Carlyle, "is never an exhilarating process." Whatever modern educators may think of most of the opinions of the sage of Choisea, this one at least is worth some of their soberest reflection...
...Drunks decreased. Convictions for drunkenness declined by 1,960, nearly 3% less than the 1926 record. The year 1927 was the soberest year since...