Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artist Arno was christened Curtis Arnoux Peters. He is a robust, dark fellow, as conservative in appearance and dress as a discreet haberdashery poster. In 1922 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he was voted "Most Musical" and "In Worst with the Faculty." Then he took his banjo to Yale, found plenty of pianos there, alternately drew for the Yale Record and devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece...
...characteristic of Oxford: "His (the student's) individuality is respected, but he is gently guided along the path of self-development and well being. Here it is sink or swim, with only an overworked 'baby dean' as a straw to the drowning man. I, for one, prefer this robust if sometimes un-salutary neglect...
...indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...
...Holland. The son of a Dutch sea captain, he left Holland in 1884, went to the Dutch East Indies to sell kerosene lamps and allied merchandise. In 1892 he was called to Batavia by the Royal Dutch oil interests. He is now Director-General of that gigantic enterprise. Robust, brown-eyed, white-haired, he spends most of his time in St. Helen's Court, London, centre of the financial district. The English have made him a baronet. His millions rank him with Rockefeller, Ford, the world's Croesi. He is superficially a brisk cosmopolite. But if his career...
That is the work of an author, new and young,?Morley Callaghan of Canada. The house of Chas. Scribners Sons, alert for potential Ernest Hemingways, has given him a robust sendoff, published several of his short stories and the above-quoted novel...