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Rutgers president Lewis Webster Jones said yesterday, "Rutgers has all the fine academic attributes and traditions of the Ivy League universities. It also has a great athletic tradition. It is my hope that we shall continue in the direction of increasing competition with Ivy League teams...
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Dear me, how clever of Mr. McCord to turn out such "Lost" Positives as licit, iterate, fulgent and fangled ... All of them are in my Webster, and most of them not uncommon in literate circles. [Let] Harvard-man McCord...heed this monition...
...exhibition comprises the 166-piece collection of a wealthy Philadelphia engineer named Webster Plass (who died last year) and his widow Margaret. Africanist William Fagg supplied a foreword to the exhibition catalogue that could also be taken as a friendly warning to visitors. To see the show clearly, said Fagg, it is necessary to forget all about naturalism, which sprang from Greek art and survived in the photographic age. "African art is an art not of analysis but of synthesis: the artist does not begin from the natural form of, say, the human body ... He begins from a germinal concept...
Cosmography, which Webster blithely defines as "a description of the world or the Universe," will be discussed by astronomer Harlow Shapley in Nat. Sci. 115. From the catalog the course sounds as though it is intended only for those who can manipulate Einstein's formulas with aplomb, but Professor Shapley claims "the only prerequisite is a persistent curiosity." It all happens in Room 18 of the geographical Institute...