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John Barker Jr. 1L, Marvin Burt '28, E. F. Clark Jr. '28, Le Baron R. Foster '28, Russell Foster '28, Z. B. Keim '29, E. J. Latham '30, J. W. McCullock 2L, A. T. Safford 2L, J. E. Spike '29, P. W. Williams '25, Douglas Vernon...
...Died. Burt William Johnson, 37, sculptor; at Claremont, Calif., from a heart attack. His work on a group of figures for the Fine Arts Building of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) was heroically completed in bed and from a wheel chair while the sculptor was suffering from influenza and heart trouble. His casket was covered with apple and peach blossoms, instead of stiff "floral pieces." A memorial service was held in Bridges Hall of Music where the fountain, "Spanish Music," perhaps the sculptor's best known work, gives inspiration...
...DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS- Maxwell Struthers Burt-Scribner ($2). That this novel was still possible in the U. S. is a matter for great thanksgiving. It is a book about the "great open spaces" by an enlightened man. A strong, silent rancher marries a virtuous Manhattan chorus girl, loses her for a while, fights predatory waterpower interests, tries city life, goes back at last to the cows, mountains, little grey home and prospective patter of tiny feet. But with what a difference are these properties handled by a man who writes with a mind instead of a sack of mush! Instead...
...mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance amply justified by the writer's competence. Few of his countrymen are as civilized as Author Burt...
Philadelphians will be vexed if it is true that they have "the acme of wealth and no illumination." But Author Burt has already revealed similar truths about New York in The Interpreter's House (1924). Having renounced Philadelphia with all other cities, soon after his graduation from Princeton (1904), Author Burt often visits cities, knows them thoroughly; but his Wyoming ranch has been his home. There he has produced, besides beef and horses, short stories and poetry of high literary merit and quiet wisdom. Lately he bought an estate in South Carolina but it was to the Tetons...