Word: barnard
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...study and insure the health & happiness of U. S. children, traditionally a presidential concern, President Hoover last year called a White House Conference on Child Health & Protection.* He appointed Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur chairman; Harry Everett Barnard, Indianapolis chemist & sanitarian, director. Last week 1,200 dignitaries and clerics, who investigated for them, and 2,000 secondary experts, assembled in Washington to report, recommend...
...Manhattan building, met (50 academicians) with 18 delegates from foreign academies, announced the election of five new members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...
...Bulletin, undergraduate publication of Barnard College, in its issue yesterday, advocated a campaign for publicity to inform the world that it was still an institution for the higher education of young women. A letter, addressed to the college, recently received from a sporting goods concern, was quoted as saying...
Squat, bristle-haired George Grey Barnard, always dramatic, received them in a studio bursting with sculpture...
What he has been working on for the past decade is a monumental Arch of War and Peace which he expects to erect by himself and at his own expense as his gift to the city. There is nothing niggardly about the Barnard Arch. Critical eyebrows raised slightly to learn that it is to be of blue tombstone granite, 120 ft. high, 60 ft. wide, covered with an intricate icing of nine-foot, white marble figures: nursing mothers, pregnant women, soldiers, supermen. Over the top will go a rainbow of colored mosaic glass...