Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only, great exception continues to be the Rockefeller Foundation, which, through its many ramifications, encourages the most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while not announced with the explosive force that accompanied the earlier huge gift, are along similar lines of a practical value that only the most hardened Philistine would deny...
...Rumor has it that those worshippers of the Muses who have reached their third year at Harvard will do homage tonight at the shrine of Terpsichorean. The affair will be one of the most exclusive of the year for the younger set. The Jovian officials whose habitat is the classic shades of University Hall have maintained a sphinx-like silence...
...Committee. Long a Republican National Committeeman, from his sick bed in Philadelphia he helped dictate the Harding nomination in 1920 over the long-distance telephone to Chicago. He wrote a scholarly history of Philadelphia's city government. The Penrose sandwich (graham bread, tongue, lettuce, tomato) is still a classic item in the Senate restaurant...
...local college where a freshwater esthete named Winfield Gaines (but called "Phoebe") was her friend until he was expelled. She studied singing with a local teacher who had a book called Lyra Operatica, full of stilted engravings of old singers in the pinched and flowing costumes of classic roles. She herself had a big rich voice. It was for church-singing, perhaps someday teaching. Certainly not for the sinful ways of opera. But when her father and mother died, Helma went to New York...
With Harvard taking fifth place in the eighth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet, New York University won its first championship in the indoor classic mainly because of the brilliant performance of Phil Edwards, its star runner, at the 102nd Regiment Armory in New York, Saturday night...