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...nearly two years the question of how subways in general could be improved artistically has been studied by a group of Manhattan artists. Some WPA and some not, but all members of the United American Artists, they believed that this extracurricular activity in the public weal would be their best argument for a Federal Bureau of Fine Arts. Last May the Union's Public Use of Arts Committee started preparing an exhibition of murals and sculpture for subways which last week opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said the Museum's catalogue...
...Kirstein, vice-president of William Filene's Sons Company, received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard in 1933, with the citation. "A power for good in his city, ever ready for effort in the public weal...
...possible influence of Messrs. Browder and Lewis on the young, conservatives should not be disturbed. The majority of Harvard undergraduates favored Mr. Landon in 1936, and it is safe to predict that, come weal or Lewis, they will be backing the Republican candidate...
...kept a broad-minded monarchy above the harmful reach of political revolutions and personal disabilities. It is an unconservative burst of pride for the loyalty of its subjects. Like the tawny cat who introduces and MGM picture, the Coronation will sound the note of exultation for the future weal of the British Empire...
...reason for the disapproval shown by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton students is not hard to find. All three are situated in New England, where grown-up as well showed a larger percentage of common sense. Moreover the three colleges recruit their students mostly from the weal-thier classes, classes who expect to be paying for, rather than to be receiving, the benefits...