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...Class, he repeated urgently the plea of Gummere to do some one thing well and hard, preferably something that is of spontaneous interest rather than something prescribed. He finished by observing that by and large most of the people he had met, even at Harvard, were susceptible to decent treatment and would respond in kind...
Risking his life. President Companys finally appealed to decent citizens of every class to master the popular ruffians. "Against their acts," cried the President, "our citizens ought to react violently by whatever means they have at their disposal!" This amounted to saying that the majority of the rabble might be wrong, and Luis Companys nervously concluded, "Perhaps I ought not to say what I have said, but I believe that I may be excused...
With this introduction an organization known as the American Artists Group last week presented its latest scheme to bring decent art at low prices to the U. S. public. Starting rather timidly last year with traveling exhibitions of prints and a show of Christmas cards designed by well-known artists and selling for 5?-25? apiece (TIME, Sept. 16, 1935), the Artists Group last week was able to hang on the walls of Manhattan's Weyhe Gallery a collection of 53 original etchings, lithographs, woodcuts. Unsigned, unlimited, each one was priced...
...considerable. Ephraim Eliot, who in after life became an apothecary, has left us a mordant account of his own class of 1780, thirty strong at graduation. One, a transfer from Yale to the senior class, was 'a good scholar and respectable'; a second, a transfer from Dartmouth, was 'a decent scholar, and rather more than a quack doctor'; and there were also three or four 'respectable characters' who had not been to other colleges. But there was a sad example of the over-bright freshman, who, with too much time on his hands, fell in with gamblers and 'became...
...with Roosevelt (Viking Press, $2.50) by Ernest K. Lindley begins: "This book is based on the supposition that many people are becoming tired of extravagant language in politics." It ends: "Everybody knows that, if this country conserves its resources, it can produce enough to provide everybody with a decent standard of living. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has moved a little distance forward. . . ." First for the late arch-Democratic New York World, since then for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, Author Lindley covered Franklin Roosevelt for seven years, became one of the President's favorite White House correspondents. In Half...