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...CRIMSON feel that insufficient effort has hitherto been made to get in touch with all the students of Harvard and Radcliffe who dabble, in oils, or make sketches during lecture hour, the directors welcome their cooperation and advice. They sincerely hope many mute inglorious Picassos are found languishing unsung over mantelpieces or stowed away in closets...
...recent speech, advanced a theory which the gentlemen of the press have baptized with the title, "Biocracy." Though Professor Cannon himself deprecates any publicity attaching to his revelation, and probably expected none when he propounded it; the papers and the public have refused to let him go down unsung. His proposition has that indefinable quality of esoteric complexity which endears itself to the nation, provided only that it be the bedfellow of science...
...unknown, unsung master craftsman who fashioned TIME'S account of the death of Calvin Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 16): a bouquet of orchids for a piece of reportorial description worthy of the late great (to all newspapermen) Frank Ward O'Malley...
Unheralded and unsung, Dr. Eckener's old Graf last week, on regular schedule, completed her third round-trip to Pernambuco, Brazil. Only one delay marred her winter season. Departing for the second trip, the Graf fouled a radio antenna, slightly ripped fabric, broke a propeller. The old Graf is doomed after the Hindenburg is launched...
...sentimental about all these names. They left behind a tale all their own, a tale half finished and inarticulate. Vaguely, the Vagabond thought of Gray in his church yard erecting for himself false gods. How many of these craftsmen had gone out to live unwept, unhonored, and unsung. How many had left only crude initials to tell the world that they had lived. How many, when looking back through the years, must feel that the only lance that they had broken in the tournament of life was a penknife on a Holworthy dado. But there was some great names...