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...gift of E. S. Harkness, the new Theatre is the principal adjunct to the activities of the Workshop, transferred a few years ago from the University to Yale. The following article describing the theatre and Professor Baker's work at Yale was written by J. J. Rorlmer '27, a former member of the Workshop who attended last week's performance...
...with the desperately stupid rhythm of life as it is. And the order of his day is the discovery of the droll, pathetic fact that life is life not a great scientific revelation but an amusing gesture. So Coles Philips would be right to suggest this as a Christmas gift, and the author of the Copeland reader is right in including an essay from it among the lore of his Christmas gift. "Oddly Enough" may well be the first of a series not alone reminiscent of Hazlitt and Sterne and Addison and all the others necessary to make this review...
...through the report there runs one unvarying and disquieting note. The erection of a solar radiation station was made possible only by the gift of $55,000 from the National Geographic Society. An expedition to East Africa was financed by a private individual. Fifty thousand dollars was gathered by subscription to purchase a valuable insect collection. The private means of the Institute permitted the publication of only eight short papers in the Smithsonian series. The National Art Gallery is squeezed into a part of the museum wholly inadequate to permit of growth and occupying space needed for specimens. The United...
...Contentions. The Government, represented by onetime (1911-23) Senator Atlee Pomerene and Attorney Owen J. Roberts, contends that Secretary Fall induced President Harding to turn the oil reserves over to his Department; that the $100,000 cash which he received from Mr. a gift, in return for which he (Fall) leased public lands to Mr. Doheny for exploitation; hence, both Mr. Fall and Mr. Doheny are guilty of conspiracy to defraud the Government...
...thin, very long-handed, long-nosed, always a flower in his buttonhole, he infuriated William Morris by his somewhat ambiguous drawings for an Arthurian poem. Other people liked him better; his drawings in the Yellow Book caused critical thunderstorms. Esthetes strove to imitate in prose and verse the Beardsley gift for wistful evilness. His friends denied that he was obscene; in that denial they took from him his character and his curse. There could be nothing dirtier than certain prints of his which had to be cut in half to be published, but even these truncated figures are perfumed with...