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Richard C. Floyd '10 was reelected president of the Varsity Club on June 8, and F. Barton Harvey was named vice-president to succeed all-American guard Endicott "Club" Peabody. Floyd was recently chosen vice-president of the Alumni Association...
...with contempt of the British achievements," warned Vanier, "are rendering a dreadful disservice to their compatriots. There is no surer way of drawing on the head of this province the hatred and violence of the other eight [English-speaking provinces]. Such men will bear a terrible responsibility if they succeed in loosing this flood which might engulf...
...Among the first to prick this Raphael bubble were seven young men who banded together in 1848 as "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," to defy academism by returning for inspiration to the freshness of Botticelli, Mantegna and other predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum...
...friendly prelate warned him. But last week he was elected Bishop again, and this time Dr. Oliver James Hart III finally accepted the call. He goes to be Bishop Coadjutor of Pennsylvania-the second oldest, largest and richest Episcopal diocese in the country; and next year he will automatically succeed 80-year-old Dr. Francis Marion Taitt as Bishop. The diocese will almost certainly pay him less than the $12,000 salary he receives from his pres-ent church, perhaps even less than the $9,000 he received from his previous parish, but the post will make...
This means that whoever is chosen to succeed Leader will not have a clear hand at his job, and it was just this sort of trouble, outside pressure, either from the graduates or the Y. A. A., preventing a coach from doing what he wanted with his squad, which was supposed to have caused all the trouble with Yale's football coaches. Now it looks as though the crew squad might be headed for some of he same...