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And in a ramshackle Negro cabin near Camden, S. C.. is a room papered with TIME covers.—ED.
Chesterton's Lecture
Sirs:
It is quite evident that TIME or time mean little to Mr. G. K. Chesterton (TIME, March 30).
A decade ago he was charmingly introduced at Yale by President Hadley and gave his lecture ''The Ignorance of the Educated." Either the title or the subject matter has the merit of persisting. I recall both with relish.
AYMER J. BEECHER New Haven, Conn.
Silver Stadium
Sirs:
Of all the stories carried by the press on the death of Knute Rockne I liked best the two opening paragraphs of the story by William Ritt, Central Press Sports Editor. Perhaps TIME would care to print them.
TED F. HIGGINS New Castle, Pa.
The paragraphs: " 'Well, well, well,' George Gipp must be saying just about now, 'Look who's here. Welcome home. Rock." "And there in that happy land, beyond the black, where the stadium is of silver, the goal posts of gold and all games are won, those two whose friendship and affection became one of football's finest sagas must be clasping hands in joyous grip again."—ED.
Crowning Thorns
Sirs:
Anent your comment on the "Crown of Thorns" displayed in the New York Flower Show (TIME, March 30): There are several of these plants on this island and I am enclosing herewith a cutting from one of them growing in our garden. This particular shrub has been blooming almost continuously for the past six years. Botanically, the "Crown of Thorns" belongs to the Poinsettia family. There are at least two legends about this plant: 1 ) The wreath referred to in Matthew 27:29, was platted with cuttings from it: 2) it will not bloom if tended by wicked persons. From its structure, I can readily believe the first to have been true. As to the second, my wife and the children take care of all the plants in our garden. Cut off the end and plant the cutting in some warm moist earth in your office and see if it will bloom for you. RALPH B. BOYDEN Key West, Fla.
TIME will report whether or not its thorn-tenders are wicked.—ED.
Crane's Biology
Sirs:
TIME needs a rebuke. It prates about being on the job but being like other human things it also is asleep at times. Two incidents demand comment. In issue of March 9. under caption of Asia's Charles Richard Crane TIME missed mentioning that Crane has done more for biological science in America than any one other philanthropist, having built the main laboratories of the Marine Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole, Mass., the main foyer with a big bronze Buddha in the centre, because the Buddhists (as Clarence Little says, and therefore claims to be one) are the only people kind to animals. . . . Woods Hole is the foremost biological research station in this country, and next to Naples, in the world. . . .
MARIUS VAN REMLAR Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Lippmann Cover
Sirs:
TIME of March 30 arrived in this morning's mail. There, on the front cover, was the name of Walter Lippmann, spelled Lippman. . . .
DONOLA HALLINAN Livermore, Calif.