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...fact, that's another reason for rejecting rampant materialism: its impact on the environment. "Whenever I use something or buy something now, I'm thinking, Where is this going to end up?" says Debbie Worthley, 46, a student adviser at the University of Vermont. "I'm not as interested in buying gadgets as I was a few years ago." Seventh Generation, a two-year-old Colchester, Vt., mail-order firm that specializes in goods for the environmentally conscious, has an essay in its catalog titled "Why You Should Buy Less Stuff." Recycling has taken hold as a voguish and satisfying...
When a new work of art is brought into the museum, it first passes through the domain of Superintendent Milton Worthley where it is unpacked by Elmer Heaps, former Gloucester sailmaker who is now The Fogg's carpenter. Then the work is sent through a fixed routine from the registrar to photographers to technical department and finally to a gallery or the storeroom. This latter, a spacious hall in the basement, already contains hundreds of miscellaneous items from the chair President Conant sits in at Commencement and the University's Great Salt to a bottle with Dean Swift's seal...
Also in Superintendent Worthley's charge is the protection of the building and its valuables. In the daytime it is a fairly simple matter with all exits carefully watched and all galleries patroled. At night Rex of Gainwell takes over this responsibility. This eight-year-old German shepherd leaves his house on the back porch each evening to make the rounds with the night watchman, as did his father before...
...Passion Flower" of Edna Worthley Underwood, published by Hougaton, Mifflin Company, is the second volume of a new world trilogy of which the first. "The Penitent", was published in 1922. The scene of "The Penitent" is laid in Russia of a century ago, a period soothing as today with the ferment of new ideas. "The Passion Flower," like its predecessor, is also a story of Russia. In her last volume, the story will deal in part with America...
...Hoffman, G. L. Johnson, H. G. Knight, J. W. Lerew, W. Miller, J. K. Moorhead, J. H. Norweb, W. R. Osgood, J. H. Quirin, F. E. Raymond, R. E. Rowe, L. S. Simons, E. M. Townsend, R. S. Tufts, F. Turnbull, R. A. Whiting, S. T. Williamson, R. S. Worthley...