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...accordance with an old custom, the Glee Club is to present a new and unpublished work at the Milton Academy Concert tonight. "Mater, Ades, Florum," a tarantella written by Elliott Carter '30 while he was a student here, has been chosen as the work to be honored by a Milton first performance...
...trouble is not with the authors, but is in the self-conscious questioning attitude with which the sitter receives his portrait. Sensitive readers, who did not feel themselves portrayed, and who were thus able to maintain a comparative detachment, were a little saddened by, no mater how much they admired, the unbending Mr. Apley. But as usual the most thorough condemnation came from the condemned. The saddest sentence of all came from the Boston Evening Transcript, in discussing Mr. Marquand upon the occasion of his engagement: "'George Apley' is Mr. Marquand's best book. Mr. Edgett of the Transcript...
...which [boys] may have their God-given right to play and work. . . ." Spiritually stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago, he donated $150,000 toward the erection of a planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). He gave his alma mater $100,000 in 1927 for its student housing program. His one great philanthropy, the Charles Hayden Foundation, had to wait for his death. Pronounced Charles Hayden in his will...
Ralph W. Ellis '79 established what probably stands as a world's record when he attended for the sixty-first time the annual football game between his alma mater and Yale...
Small colleges, like small countries, are often more fertile of ideas than big ones. Last week came news of an unusual idea from small Hiram College (enrollment: 325) in Hiram, Ohio. The alma mater of Poet Vachel Lindsay and of U. S. President James A. Garfield, who was once (1857-63) its principal when it was named Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram started a summer school in 1931 on the "intensive study" plan. Instead of working on a number of things at once, Hiram students spent six weeks exclusively on one subject. Two years ago young President Kenneth Irving Brown...