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Pundit, patron, promoter of the New York Antique show is white-haired, amiable George W. Harper, Wesleyan graduate, onetime corporation lawyer and Belmont Estate attorney, rabid antiquarian. Four years ago Mr. Harper had a nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled...
...books, and is addicted to golf, about which he has humorously philosophized in a volume called Nine Holes of Golf. His wife Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz has written on musical subjects, is co-editor of the Library of American Literature. Critic Cortissoz has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Columbia, Wesleyan, Union, Amherst, innumerable clubs. He has no official connection with the Metropolitan Museum, but is an honorary fellow of that institution, as well as of the American Institute of Architects. Other Cortissoz books: Augustus Saint Gaudens; John La Farge; Art and Common Sense; The Life of Whitelaw Reid; American Artists...
Middletown, Conn., Feb. 19. The definite program of the Wesleyan Intercollegiate Parley of American Business and Government, to be held here by the students of Wesleyan University on Friday and Saturday. February 28 and March 1, has been announced...
With speeches and round table discussion by a socialist, a lobbyist, a liberal editor, a journalist, and social scientists, the students of Wesleyan will join with their guests from most of the Eastern colleges in a study of the relationship existing between American business and government, with an eye to present apparent tendencies and probable future trends...
...students and faculty of all eastern colleges are invited to attend the affair, and the Wesleyan fraternities are prepared to take care of a limited number of men overnight. Individuals who desire to make reservations should write to Marshall Bragdon, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut...