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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recurrently many a scholar looks back wistfully at the early days of Johns Hopkins University. It was housed in some plain Baltimore buildings which people thought resembled a piano factory. But its President Daniel Coit Gilman sloganed: "Men, not bricks and mortar." In the early 1880's Abraham Flexner was a student there, while Dr. Richard Theodore Ely was busy founding its chair of economic science. Largely out of Dr. Flexner's enthusiasm for the Johns Hopkins method came the Institute for Advanced Study he is building in Princeton (TIME, March 27et ante...
...went, until one dull afternoon last week when into the press room in the basement of the Geological Museum walked none other than James Ramsay MacDonald, president of the Conference. To the Press it was an unexpected honor. But Scot MacDonald quickly made it plain that he had come not to honor the Press but to scold it. Calling the reporters around him, Mr. MacDonald wagged his finger at them and began...
...novel. Says Introducer Richard J. Walsh: "It seems clear that no native Chinese, however schooled in English prose, could have written of his own people as Mrs. Buck has written of them." Some captious critics think Authoress Buck's reputation as unsubstantial as China's boundaries, but plain readers who do not worry their heads about literary hierarchies continue to read her with pleasure & profit. This collection of stories about China, though somewhat over-reverently introduced by Publisher Walsh of John Day Co., speaks for itself...
...piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant undergraduate record, how he impressed people at first as a swart plain-spoken Westerner careless about clothes, how he joined Zeta Psi (next to worst of the five fraternities then in existence*), went on working his way to become managing editor of the News...
...Paris scholarship of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects for a project to house a National Banking Board in a monumental group of buildings in Washington. No modernist, Architect Frei's buildings were designed in what he called "modified classicism," a style which seems to consist in substituting plain bands of stone for the traditional classic entablatures. Still Architect Frei believes architecture should be timely, said his winning design was "fun to work on because it bore a definite relation to the actual trend of affairs." Last year's winner, Architect Dick Granelli, is a good friend...