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Howard Earle Coffin, retired motors tycoon, bought Sapeloe 17 years ago and developed it the way other tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe...
Such cases deal with only a small fraction of the courses in the college, and those few outside the intended scope of the innovation. There are more fundamental problems that will have to be met and at least a beginning made towards overcoming during this second year. The professor must cover his field and still allow the student time for some independent work, according to one of the avowed objects of the plan. A balance will have to be found between the necessity of testing the work done in the examinations following and the granting of liberty to each...
...Manhattan, Chairman Otto Kahn opened his house for an inaugural reception. Guests heard him speak on the scope of Schubert 'Week, heard Olga Samaroff outline the plans of a Schubert Memorial to help talented young U. S. musicians, heard Young Pianist Jerome Rappaport in evidence, heard the Musical Art Quartet. For refreshment then, there were vast quantities of paté de fois gras, chicken à la king, ice cream, cakes, cigarets, coffee. Some imagined later they had been served Scotch highballs, champagne cocktails, mixed by Brother Felix Kahn...
...this kind unless it is carried on for years", Dr. Cobb stated. "Therefore the promotion of a permanent commission is a most important advance. Funds must be raised to carry on the investigations. At present about $10,000 a year is needed, but if generous support is given the scope of the work can be enlarged greatly...
...Guild proved a medium for expressing among others one answer several years ago, "R. U. R."--that while science and the machine could not totally obliterate humanity, yet only on the barest thread of some intangible essence hung the existence of civilization, a thread totally outside of the scope of science. Others have given vent to the fantastic and emotional cry "Back to Nature"--and schools of education have in a few instances carried this into practice...