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...misfortune of modern education, in my opinion, is that this process of mixing up the students of different subjects is not continued in the graduate schools. The embryonic doctor, lawyer, business executive, architect, and clergyman would benefit enormously from each other if they could dine together every evening during their graduate school life. At present this is not possible in most universities, least of all, perhaps, at Harvard. We may hope that time will remedy this unfortunate condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Praises Freedom and Interchange of Views Made Possible by Atmosphere of Large University | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...star with Helen Hayes is Herbert Marshall; he, a frustrated architect; she, a cinemagnate's secretary. As she cajoles a jury into acquitting a man accused of killing his wife because he loves another, she falls in love with Marshall, a juror. As San Francisco saw Ladies and Gentlemen, the final curtain brought renunciation. Instead of going away with the secretary, the architect made ready to send his son to Europe, "in search of my lost youth." But the play had a bad case of third-act anemia, for which the authors last week were preparing transfusions. Ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tryout on the Coast | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...decided its architecture should be Gothic, even selected the stone for its buildings, a greenish-grey rock quarried in nearby Hillsboro, which he chose because it resembled Princeton's building stone. Buck directed that the campus should be dominated by a great Gothic chapel. When he saw the architect's plans, he ordered them changed, the 210-ft. tower moved to a commanding position in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Duke's Design | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Early last June Freud went to England "for peace," joined his son Architect Ernst. With him went another son, Lawyer Martin, and his gentle, brown-eyed daughter Anna, a practicing psychoanalyst. In a comfortable London house near Regent's Park, filled with his Greek and Egyptian treasures, Freud answers letters, continues his writing, even treats a few old patients. Every Sunday evening he settles down in the parlor, coddles his five young grandchildren, enjoys a lively card game called tarot with his sons. Always at his call is his nine-year-old chow dog, Lun. During his 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...with regal pomp (stenographers greet him: "Good morning, Mr. President"). Once a week he confers with a management council, whose three chief members are Vice Presidents Howard A. Flanigan, John Philip Hogan and Stephen F. Voorhees. Mr. Hogan is the fair's chief engineer, Mr. Voorhees its chief architect. Howard Flanigan is as close as anyone gets to being No. 2 man. He is officially in charge of commercial exhibits, concessions, and the amusement area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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