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...tutorial group, the college would be providing its members with the equivalent of Social Insurance policies. There is at least the possibility that friendships arising out of such contacts would do much towards preventing individuals from being or becoming maladjusted, and even more towards converting the grind, the weir, the book-worm, and the recluse into normal social animals, with an interest in current events, the Nugget, Smith sub-suffragettes, and the Harvard game in addition to their intellectual concerns...
...some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan exhibitions of contemporary works. U. S. ship models, silver, glass, etchings and prints. In the basement are studios, work...
...Philadelphia Dr. Simon Flexner got him a laboratory job at the University. The late Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell gave him patronage. He worked hard, brilliantly, but episodically, and got results. He pushed himself into this work and that, pushed himself to Germany and European elsewheres, gloated in honors: "In Copenhagen they gave me the Royal Medal. If I add what I got from Spain, I have two foreign decorations. It is said that the Swedish Crown intends to decorate me. . . . I was given audience by two royalties. . . ." He often referred to himself with naive objectiveness, as "funny Noguchi...
...squad matches, J. B. Walker '33 will meet L. C. Sorensen in the semi-finals. Walker defeated D. R. Weir '32, 10-8, 8-6; and C. B. Sykes '33, 7-5, 6-2, while Sorensen advanced with victories over J. T. Foster '33, 6-4, 6-4; and J. C. Camphell '33, 7-5, 6-3, R. A. Cooley '32 will be a semi-finalist in the lower bracket; he downed R. L. Riley '33, 6-1, 7-5; and H. L. McClung '32, 6-1, 6-1. In a quarter-final match R. H. Woodward, Jr. '32, will...
Chief cause of the riot seemed to be resentment against the State Pardon & Parole Board's administration of the indeterminate sentence law, by which the Board, and not judge or jury, ultimately fixes the time a prisoner must serve. Said round-faced, Roman Catholic Chaplain Elegius Weir: "One of the principal objections of the prisoners is that although all ten members of the Board pass upon the parole applications, only three of them actually come here to hear the cases. They claim they are allowed only one or two minutes to present their cases. They say they are sworn...