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...busy, as varied and as cosmopolitan as a fair is Ohio State University, fourth largest university in the U. S. Running it is a strenuous job, and this spring gaunt President George Washington Rightmire told the board of trustees he wanted to retire July i, just before he becomes 70. A onetime undergraduate football and track star, onetime country schoolteacher, onetime president of the Columbus (Ohio) city council, Dr. Rightmire during twelve years as head of Ohio State has greatly expanded the sideshows and the attendance at the university...
...incidence of arthritis in animals at the Philadelphia Zoo, found this joint disease in the front legs of hyenas and leopards, the hind legs of antelope, deer and wild pigs, the necks and hands of gorillas. He concluded that in mammals (including man) the parts put to most strenuous use are the most susceptible to arthritis...
...fine pitchers and hitters, so orchestral managers try to outbid one another for champion piccolo players and contrabassoonists. The violin and the cello are commonly placed among the noblest of musical instruments, but good violinists and cellists bring only a fair figure (average salary: about $80 a week). Most strenuous bidding frequently takes place over first-class oboists and horn players. Fiddlers are the symphonic world's plentiful proletariat. But fine horn players are rarer than fine conductors, and often make a bigger difference to the sound of an orchestra...
...already strenuous list of activities, Mumford in 1931 added that of Visiting Professor of Art at Dartmouth, a job he filled until three years ago. With Esthete Paul Rosenfeld, Bard Alfred Kreymborg and Critic Van Wyck Brooks he founded The American Caravan to publish experimental writing. On this board of editors Lewis Mumford was the golden mean. In a sense he has performed the same function among liberal and left-wing thinkers. Without the literary edge and personality of an Edmund Wilson (TIME, March 21) but also without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed...
...After strenuous daily practice all during the Spring vacation, the Newell Boat House orasmen are now definitely shaping...