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...Yard hurdles--Won by Pitkin (A); second, Tate (A); third, W.K. Page '31. Time...
However great a loss the reported destruction of the famous Turner drawings may be for the world of art in general and for the Tate Gallery in particular, this destruction must come in a certain sense as a bore for all who may possess specimens of the master's work in their collections. The destruction of the work of an artist must multiply the value of those works which remain. Philatelists have been known to destroy one of two specimens of a given stamp in order to double the value of the remaining one. Possessors of Turner's drawings...
...Turner would feel a very real regret at the loss of the bulk of the artist's work, in spite of the pecuniary advantage to themselves. They will undoubtedly cling with anxiety to the straw of hope held out by experts that perhaps the major part of the Tate collection was not destroyed...
...them with his wide black lips. Soon he would jump out of his cage and wrap his arms around them. One little girl jumped out of her chair and ran down the aisle. She went straight home. Soon another one followed her. "They told their parents what Principal Tate had said. The next day the parents of the two girls together with other parents called on Principal Tate. Then they called on the chairman of the school board, R. E. Boring, and on the high school principal, J. M. Colson...
They objected to a teacher who would use the word that Principal Tate had used in front of their children. When Mr. Colson asked one of the parents what "evolution" meant, the parent said: "I do not know and I do not want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...