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...Arts, now being seriously considered by the Yale Corporation, again brings up the whole mooted question of the value of the classics as essentials. For every lover of Euripedes or Aeschylus who rises to point out the benefit of a classical foundation, there is an Edison or a Henry Ford to declare that dead languages have no part in the world of today; and for every Edison questionnaire published there is an interview with a business man of Dayton, Ohio, who emphasizes the importance of a classical background to serve as a setting into which to retire after the first...
...propagandists learn from this latest discovery, and profit by it. The next of the Wild West Shows that tour Europe can carry the message of International Prohibition. Peggy O'Neil's next London-and-Paris appearance should be used to spread the gospel of Monroe. And when Henry Ford again visits a war-mad Europe, his mission should include not Jane Addams and David Starr Jordan, but Maude Adams, Frances Starr, and Al Jolson. The true purpose of art has been revealed...
March 26.--Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford '94, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, "Hispanic America...
Last evening the St. Paul's Catholic Club of the University gave a complimentary dinner and reception to Professor J. D. M. Ford '94 in the Faculty Room of the Union. The President of the Club, R. T. Murphy '23, made an introductory address and R, V, Donovan '08 acted as toastmaster...
...Reverend J. J. Ryan, Chaplain of the Club, Mr. James Byrne '77, Fellow of Harvard College, Professor R. H. Lord '06, Mr. Daniel Sargent '13, and Professor Maurice de Wolf delivered addresses in eulogy of Professor Ford, who as recent exchange professor to France has received honorary degrees from the University of the Sorbonne and the University of Toulouse, the French Cross of the Legion of Honor, and has been made a Knight Commander of Isabella but the King of Spain...