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Best of everything was Mr. Gershwin's music. Three songs, "Looking for a Boy," "These Charming People" and particularly "Sweet and Low Down," will rattle in your ears from every phonograph and loudspeaker for many months...
...missionary movement became a storm centre when Dr. R. E. Diffendorfer, fatherly secretary of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions, beamed down from the platform and addressed someone as "my boy." Amid angry growls and mutterings from the audience, a loud voice vociferated, as reported in public prints: "Youth has been 'my-boyed' by a lot of old dunderheads until it's fed up. That's why this conference is here." Y. T. Wu, a Chinese delegate, charged that the mission movement is a growth forced on China at the point of the sword...
Child Scientists. The contrast of the U. S. boy when he enters kindergarten and when he emerges from college, is depressing. All children are natural-born scientists, and then "the little-boy spirit that makes him tear up a drum to find out what is inside gives way to the falsely superior attitude of not caring a continental"?Dr. E. Laurence Palmer, Cornell University...
...works now on exhibition at Fogg Museum the most important are the marble portrait statue of Mestrovic's mother and the bronzed plaster nude entitled 'Memories', said Director Forbes. "The two carven wood panels. 'The Unhappy Angel' and 'Boy' are illustrative of the type of work being done by several modernist supporters...
...since childhood the minds of college men have been poisoned against the Bible by those very people who most believed in it. They have held it up as a good holy book filled with deep moral lessons. They have advertised it in a way certain to fill any normal boy with the bitterest loathing. Soft handed ministers have spoken of it in hushed, strained voices, Sunday school teachers have branded its messages among the unpleasant memories in the minds of their young disciples. Its simple, powerful legends have been darkened by the smoke of wordy sermons, while the listeners watched...