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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Syracuse, N. Y...
...Frick Art Reference Library fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 21) than the donor found herself last week deeply involved in hot and noisy litigation. James Howard Bridge, a white-haired Briton of 77, was suing Miss Helen Clay Frick for slander & libel, asking $250,000 damages. In White Plains, N. Y. a Supreme Court jury sat down to hear the evidence. Its nub was that Defendant Frick had ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator of her father's art collection, that the book on the Frick...
...picking as new headmaster a close friend of Mr. Speer. David Richard Porter. A onetime Bowdoin footballer. David Porter first won fame by catching a Harvard kickoff behind his own goal line, running it back 107 yards for a touchdown. Athletic and youngish at 52, he is an active Y. M. C. A. worker, author of several religious books. First and most popular thing he did last autumn, after Mr. Speer called him to Mount Hermon as head of the Bible Department, was to enter the student-faculty tennis tournament, win every match. His educational creed: "Much of our secondary...
...years he had covered the campus at Hightstown, N. J., with new buildings, made his school the pride of U. S. Baptists and a major feeder for Princeton. Last week Peddie, too, got a religious, athletic new headmaster in the Rev. Wilbour E. Saunders, Secretary of the Rochester (N. Y.) Federation of Churches, onetime pastor of Brooklyn's Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. Peddie trustees knew they were choosing a man whose study at Cambridge had given him a strong enthusiasm for the atmosphere and methods of the English public schools...
...bearing Greek letters and three bars shaped and colored to represent the stripes on the sleeve of a doctor's academic robe. Its membership will be of two classes: students and older churchmen. First two institutions to get student chapters are Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (Rochester, N. Y.) and Southern...