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Authorities of Fogg Art Museum announced yesterday that the major exhibition for this year will start on Monday and will last for two weeks. The showing this year, held in honor of Professor C. B. Tinker, of Yale, will feature eighteenth and early nineteenth century English paintings, lent for the occasion by private collectors, university museums, and well known dealers from all parts of the country...
When Chairman Stratton selected President Compton as his successor he chose a man after his own heart. Both are midwesterners, both are physicists, both like to tinker, neither is an M. I. T. man. In its 65 years M. I. T. has had but one alumnus for its President...
Gentility and cultivation have made him a social favorite and an incessant host to visiting notables. His name appears on Chinese merchandise as suggestive of quality. He paints, gardens, studies biology, boxes in the Chinese fashion, likes to tinker with machinery. He has written some 15% of the 400 plays in his repertoire, and his collection of books on Chinese drama, art and music is noteworthy. Among those who have admired his acting are Fritz Kreisler, Somerset Maugham, the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, Bertrand Russell. Tumultuously has he been received in Japan...
...press." When asked after the meeting to define "conservatives and radicals," he admitted that the average conservative is a man just too lazy to act; he is willing to stand pat, and let things slide as they are. A genuine conservative, however, is a man willing to tinker ahead slowly, experimenting as he goes along, trying to get a working principle, but ever advancing. The radical, on the other hand, is one who works as soon as he thinks, or even sooner...
Four lecturers come from other American colleges to Harvard, two for the whole year and two for the second half year only. Chauncey Tinker, on sabattical leave from Yale, will lecture during the second half year in the Department of Fine Arts on British Painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...