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...West Point Customs and Traditions" written by Captain J.W. Porter of the West Point Magazine, The Pointer...
...lecturer raises his pointer to a stereopticon view of Chinese buildings. In a crisp, piping voice he exclaims: "And I said to him, as one Occidental to one Oriental, 'May I visit your pagoda?' And he said to me, as one Oriental to one Occidental, 'You may.' " Three hundred undergraduate eyes closely follow the pictures, 300 ears the discourse. The pagoda is visited, described, its structural and esthetic significance intelligibly explained...
...Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs...
...equal the world's100-yard dash record?9? sec.* In Des Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record...
...dolour of Irish painting. Thus when an exhibition of contemporary Irish art opened, last week, at the Helen Hackett Galleries in Manhattan, few were surprised at the nature of the paintings.* Irishmen like Paul Henry see landscapes of mist-laden perfection and paint them so. Irishmen like famed poet-pointer AE (George William Russell) blithely romanticize the already romantic countryside. Patrick Joseph Tuohy's portraits seem both honest and clear, unusual in a day when much portraiture is either smart fawning or sincerity thwarted by theories. Irishmen, in painting as in most of their literature, evoke a racial charm...