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...flighty theorist is 31-year-old President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. No flight of fancy was his speech to southern pedagogs three weeks ago at Chapel Hill, N. C. on a "University of Utopia" where "hours and residence requirements as criteria for winning college degrees" would be scrapped (TIME, Nov. 10). President Hutchins was hinting at, preparing pedagogs for the formal announcement of something which he and his predecessor Dr. Max Mason and the Chicago faculty had discussed for several years...
...from First Prizeman Picasso, the jury could not be accused of playing Names in their awards. Exhibiting at Pittsburgh are such newsworthy names as Georges Braque, André Derain, Marie Laurencin, Kees Van Dongen, Rockwell Kent, Eugene Speicher, Horse-Painter A. J. Munnings, Dame Laura Knight, Dod Proctor, Art Theorist Roger Elliot Fry. Yet second prize went to one Alexander Brook of New York, third prize ($500) to Charles Dufresne of Paris. Since Picasso's portrait of his wife is not for sale, Artist Brook's still-life of a cat, three peaches, a begonia and a door...
Youthful Anthropologist Margaret Mead (Mrs. Reo Fortune), no bookworm theorist, believes in getting her data at first hand. Two years ago she published an account of primitive adolescence (Coming of Age in Samoa). Now she reports how children grow up among the Manus of the Admiralty Islands...
Worldwide astronomers scoffed. But Father Ricard had compared 4,000 weather maps with 3,000 sunspot observations, was not to be abashed. Blandly he replied to those who called him an ecclesiastical eccentric, by calling such an eminent astronomer as Herbert Hall Turner of Oxford a "wild theorist." In 1914 he was engaged in patient controversy with Astronomer Albert Porta of Turin, Astronomer Edward Lucien Larkin of Lowe's Observatory, Astronomer William Wallace Campbell of the Lick Observatory (now president of the University of California...
Died. Thorstein B. Veblen, 72, of Menlo Park, Cal., social theorist (Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation [1917]); uncle of Princeton's Oswald Veblen, mathematician; in Palo Alto...