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Breaking out into the sports limelight briefly last Monday at the 76th Sports-writers' Luncheon was Bill Bingham, peacetime head of the H. A. A., and czar of the Eastern Intercollegiate Rules Committee, recently promoted to the rank of full Colonel in the army...
Attached to the Rules Committee since 1931, Bingham was elected as head last year after a long crusade to make college football a better and safer game...
...Bingham--An adding machine has a heart, you'll find. Just make a frequency distribution of all figures and ask questions...
...Well, listen to him, because you'll soon find that you really are learning a lot of accounting. All you have to do is to get a Dist. in his course is use "plain common sense." Then there will be Mr. Bliss and his slide ruling partners, McNeil and Bingham. Statistics will amaze you. It amazed us. Just remember to question the standard and talk about Miss Filipetti's habits, and class work will be a cinch. If you are bent on attaining the first quartile, well, just back away from every problem and get the overall picture. Just back...
...Civil War, largest section of the show, included less heroic action, simpler scenes of soldier life. There were Civil War paintings by William Morris Hunt, Eastman Johnson, George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Nast, Winslow Homer. Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty showed Negro slaves galloping to sanctuary in the Union lines. Of A Ride, Painter Johnson wrote: "A veritable incident . . . seen by myself at Centreville, on the morning of McClellan's advance." Most of the Civil War pictures bore out a remark once made by Ulysses S. Grant to a contemporary war artist...