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Charles Sims, associated with the Royal Academy, studied with Jules Lefebyre and Benjamin Constant, acquired a precise and elegant technique, and developed, by painting the cold noses of aristocrats and the torsos of the wives of trade-kings, a satiric turn of mind that would have made him an ornament to the House in the days of Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield. Two years ago he painted a picture of King George. The monarch's little legs protruded from a dandiacal bouquet of ribbons and stars, ermine and furbelows; his wan, overbred features looked down like a face...
...inclination" which no medicine will diminish, and with an aversion to Matrimony, a Man who persists in thinking Commerce with the Sex inevitable-advising him to prefer old Women to young ones in his Amours for seven cogent, ingenious reasons and one technical reason. This letter is signed by Benjamin Franklin...
Officers of the band for the coming year are: Ambrose Francis Keeley '27, of Fall River, Director; Robert Thornton Smith '27, of Saco, Me,; President; Randolph Piper '27, of Lexington, Manager: Charles Philip Englehardt '28, Secretary; Samuel Ganz '28, Treasurer; and Louis Burton Benjamin '29, Librarian. Contrary to the practice of the Harvard University Band Club in previous years, members will be elected at the close of the football season instead of in the spring. The members of Band Club are chosen on the basis of their work during the past season...
...class are: Lawrence Soule Apsey '24 of Cambridge; Herbert Alvin Berman '24 of Cambridge; Robert Garlock of Bloomfield N. J; Leon Lipschitz of New York City; Milton Rosenkranz of Union City, N. J., and Joshua Willard '24 of Minneapolis, Minn. From the second year men, those picked are: Joseph Benjamin Brennan of Savannah, Ga.; Erwin Nathaniel Griswold of Cleveland, Ohio; Moses Samuel Huberman '23 of Portland, Me.; Nathan Leopard Jacobs of Bayonne, N. J.; Louis Leventhal Joffe of Baltimore, Md.; Carlisle Elwood Mau of Provo, Utab; William Mitchell of Washington, D. C., James Benjamin Powell of Ashland, O.; Howard Darker...
...Benjamin Franklin would have chuckled with satisfaction. From all over the U. S. and Europe they came, thousands of chemists, to his favorite city, Philadelphia. They flocked to the meeting of the American Chemical Society, founded 50 years ago at Northumberland, Pa., at the home of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen (TIME, Sept. 6). They were chemists who would discuss problems far more complex than charging a Leyden wet cell with current from an electrical storm conducted by a kite-string...