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...young man wants to be a novelist, a poet, a playwright or an architect, college is the traditional place for him to get his training. If he wants to be a painter he is expected to go to Paris or to one of the big art schools of New York, Boston, Chicago, despite the fact that all U. S. universities give art courses. Critics who wondered why this is so went last week to the dingy galleries of the College Art Association in New York to see an exhibition of student work from 26 U. S. colleges, universities, museum schools...
...Saturday morning course directed by Musical Handyman Sigmund Spaeth over WJZ will have famed musical amateurs for teachers: Writer John Erskine last week, Aviator Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones this week, with Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Architect Kenneth Murchison and Artists Peter Arno and Neysa McMein mentioned as other possibilities...
...sketches were on view last week. But Manhattan socialites were more interested in the opera of his sons and grandchildren. There were eleven of them in the show, ranging from 69-year-old Christopher Grant to 16-year-old John II. Water-colors by the three sons, Artist Bancel, Architect Christopher Grant, Retired Banker Oliver Hazard Perry, showed that they had drunk deep of Father John's medicine. Largest exhibits were the enormous cartoons for the mosaic tympanum of Washington's Trinity College Chapel by Son Bancel and Grandson Thomas Sergeant...
Dilettante painting is far from the La Farges' only accomplishment. Son Christopher Grant La Farge was first architect for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, succeeded in erecting the gigantic columns and romanesque choir, which his successor the mystically Gothic Ralph Adams is busily altering. Manhattanites remember Christopher Grant La Farge as designer of most of the buildings in the Bronx Zoo and of New York's subway kiosks. His two lank sons, both contributors to the family exhibition, are Christopher, known as "Kipper," and Oliver, known as "Ink." Kipper is an architect, likewise an able amateur...
...oppose the chapel is virtually to attempt to undo what the Corporation has already decreed. On the other hand, the vast majority of Harvard men feel strongly opposed to a large chapel in the Yard. Plans are still in the hands of the architect. It is not too late for the Corporation to reconsider its choice of location...