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Near the height of artistic anonymity are those painstaking workmen in government office who scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such anonymity is the fate of Stamp Engraver Sanchez Toda, designer of the Spanish Goya memorial stamps which reached U. S. post offices last week. Cables carried his name round the world, foreign reformers held high their hands in horror...
Food Fads. Dr. Harry Everett Barnard, director of the President's Conference on Child Health Protection, warned school teachers against propaganda issued by food-products manufacturers. "Every idea in the field of nutrition has promptly found its way into the school room and carried with it fads and foolishness to command the attention of the teacher and her children until the next new thought supplanted...
...Cathedral of Chartres, delicate, lacelike, had been built in Hartford, Conn., it would probably by this time be a chipped and crumbling mass. Reason: U. S. climate is inimical to fine sculptural stonework. Last week Sculptor George Grey Barnard had much to say about the decay of the medieval sculptures in the famed Cloisters established by himself in upper Manhattan and later purchased by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Most of this outdoor statuary has disintegrated more in its 20 years in the U. S. than in the preceding six centuries in Europe. Even the indoor...
This was the statement of President William Allan Neilson of Smith College, delivered yesterday afternoon in the Hotel Statler before 1000 members of the Alumnae Clubs of the Seven Associated Colleges--Smith, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Mt. Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Barnard...
...John Barnard Associates and the Cygnet Press are avowedly Harvard concerns. The first professes to emulate an eighteenth-century clergyman who "was fond of books and did what he could for Harvard", while the second is managed by two members of the Signet Society who aim to demonstrate that they have learned something from the finely printed books which have been given to the College Library...