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Following the speaking there will be a short business meeting at which the chairman of the Board of Critics will be elected. It is this board which will visit the plays current in Boston and pass judgment on their comparative worth...
Said the late Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist (TIME, Mar. 23), in his will: "I instruct my executors to destroy any paintings which, in their judgment, they may deem for the best interests of my estate to have destroyed." Accordingly his executors, Architect Charles A. Platt, Illustrator Wallace Morgan, Art Dealer Albert Milch, last week burned 17 pictures which they regarded as below his best standard, set aside 12 others for future destruction. No adolescent attempts, experiments, unfinished work will mar the reputation of Artist Metcalf, as they do the fame of so many artists, musicians, writers...
Lastly, our advertisement urges the deaf person to try the Acousticon. When he has tried it for ten days, he is capable of using his own judgment...
Courts and juries are often enough criticized and surely with sufficient cause. But the problem is immensely complicated by public judgment. The accused can only have fair trial, when court decisions are made without reference to mass opinion which is formed solely on the evidence contained in meagre and occasionally garbled press reports...
...Senate had just vigorously asserted its right--and duty--to investigate the qualifications for office of the President's nominees. Its neglect of this obligation in Sargent's case is quite inconsistent and unpardonable. No sooner had it displayed total disregard for the President's judgment by twice rejecting his first choice for this post, than, with implications of unbounded faith; it approved an unknown man without a murmur. the principle that any nominee offered by the President is to be accepted unless shown to be unfit may conduce to efficient administration. But to sanction a man's appointment...