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...older class secretaries after consultation with some members of the class might send is names of the man of men they consider worthy of the award. An impartial committee composed of members of the Alumni Bulletin and Association would cut this list down to ten. They would select the same number of non graduates, it would then be the job of the Corporation and the President to select the recipients from this list. If they felt that there weren't sufficient men with records worthy of awards, the number would be cut down. But above all it is important...
...Having tasted blood in 1932, the Democrats were out to mass a thumping vote and carry the state for the first time in half a century. Badly demoralized by local defeats, the Republicans sensed their peril. Pennsylvania's voters prepared to go to the polls this week and select their party candidates for the November elections. For Governor- The regular Democratic State Committee backed George Hansell Earle 3rd's gubernatorial candidacy. Candidate Earle, 43, is vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co. For 20 years he was one of the best polo players on Philadelphia's sporting Main...
Tryouts to select the Harvard delegate to the Intercollegiate Poetry Reading will be held in Holden Chapel today at 2 o'clock. Selections must be six minutes in length, made up of either one long or several short poems, and the contestants need not confine their choice to modern poetry...
TIME in Pennsylvania Sirs: My sympathy, also a proposition, to U. of Penn. student Pollack, who heads Letters column in the March 6 issue. When I graduated from highschool, my father offered to write in advance a check for four years college education, stating I could select the institution. I have since often thought, in declining, I was foolish. Perhaps I was wise-I might have chosen U. of Penn. Thanks to TIME I have endeavored to make up for this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher...
...courtiers, decorated churches, produced Los Caprichos, his most famed etchings. These showed madmen, convicts, prostitutes, gluttonous monks, himself enticed by a two-headed Alba. Outraged, the Inquisition tried to imprison Goya, was stopped by the King. When Napoleon descended upon Spain, Goya remained in Madrid, helped King Joseph Bonaparte select 50 Spanish paintings for the Musée Napoleon in Paris. But when Wellington (whom he painted) restored the Bourbons and Ferdinand VII took the throne, Goya retired from the capital to a village near a church he had decorated with court characters and street walkers. Nearly blind as well...