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...including John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The citation: ". . . His active interest in architecture is incarnated in the restoration of the cathedral of Rheims, the chapel of the University of Chicago . . . the American building in Luxor and the restoration of the city of Williamsburg, Va.. a project unprecedented in its scope and cost and unlimited in its possibilities as an inspiration in good architecture, patriotism and citizenship. . . ." Honorary membership was also conferred on Professor William Archer Rutherford Goodwin (William & Mary), historian & archeologist who supervised the Williamsburg restoration. The Institute's Fine Arts Medal was bestowed on Architectural Sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman...
...Scope. Well acquainted is Comptroller Sproul with the magnitude of his institution's academic and student population. California, the nation's largest residence institution, employs 2,866 pedagogs and officers to educate and manage its 26,111 graduate and undergraduate students in winter and summer sessions at Berkeley, at Los Angeles (under a director appointed by the president), at San Francisco, at Davis, La Jolla, Riverside, Meloland, Kearney, Mt. Hamilton. When he or she enters the university, each young Californian may choose from the curricula of 25 schools and colleges for preparation toward a career...
Vital to Canada has been the need of rehabilitating British Empire Steel. In scope and assets the company is second only to the Dominion's two railroads. Practically the entire industrial life of Nova Scotia depends on it. Yet the task has been tremendous. A great funded debt, some of it with large accrued interest, preferred stock in arrears, receivership suits and bank liens have complicated the problem. And added to this has been the rivalry between the steel and coal interests, each fearful of the other. A pleasing coincidence to Englishmen was the fact that strong hands in both...
...McKim, Mead & White. Heralds were they of a great exhibition of sculpture by U. S. citizens and foreigners working in the U. S. which was opened in, and served to inaugurate, the museum's vast sculpture court. Few displays in the U. S. have compared-with it in scope and quality- some 546 pieces were shown by such famed artisans as Robert Aitken, Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Stirling Calder, Allan Clark., Hunt Diederich, Charles Grafly, Malvina Hoffman, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide Maillol, Paul Manship. Edward McCartan, Robert Tait McKenzie, Charles Gary Rumsey, Mahonri Young, William Zorach. Those who inspected them were...
...numerous exhibitions that are pleasing to the connoisseurs this group of sponsors of the modern tendencies in art has also done much for the novice and has aided him in his education in the fine arts. The men honored this morning are going to an institution that realized the scope that modern art had attained, appreciated its beauty, and broke away from the conservative Metropolitan Museum. The efforts of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art are indicative of the healthy state of modern artistic tendencies and the recognition that it has received is deserved...