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...Arizona, Calvin Coolidge put aside the role of "plain tourist" which he had assumed "to look around California quietly" (TIME, March 3) and became, for the first time since he left the White House, a public character performing a public function. At the request of President Hoover, he broke his homeward journey across the continent at Globe, Ariz. In state as they used to be, he and Mrs. Coolidge were escorted 30 miles out across the desert to a canyon in the Gila River. Across the canyon, backing the river up into a 25-mile-long lake...
...Legal Aid Bureau, in its seventeenth year of service, renders a double service to the public and the Law School. While primarily for the service of students of the University, the Bureau also undertakes cases for clients who otherwise could not afford legal service. Besides this charitable function, which helps to fill a gap in the judicial machinery of the United States, the Bureau is of great value not only to law students, but also to the entire legal profession...
...done to remedy both. Their inspirer is not "utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions"; he wants to make the institutions better, and as a disciple of Socrates he begins by looking to see what is wrong, and having found it he criticizes it. That is the function of Dr. Meiklejohn's words; his acts, at Wisconsin and formerly at Amherst, show what he believes should be done, and what he does...
...assembled eight consultants, men of proven capacity in their various branches of scholarship, whose sole function will be to give workers at the library the benefit of their experience...
...just the same way today do New York art critics regard that annual function, the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists ("No jury. No prizes."). Started 19 years ago by a group of young artists in revolt against the pontifical National Academy of Design, all that is necessary to exhibit a picture with the Independents is six dollars and an opus...