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...parade ground where 1,700 boys marched last week in cadet uniforms. But Latin School boys learn their lesson as they always have-by grinding long hours over their books. Headmaster Powers hates "frills" with all the vigor of his Yankee predecessors. Harvard's President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell turned up at the tercentenary exercises to praise Latin School's "insistence on hard work and its methods of self-education." Many an old Latin School boy nodded approvingly at the message which Philosopher George Santayana (1882) sent to his schoolmates: "The merely modern man never knows what...
...Bernice Abbott, one of the most distinguished American photographers, will open all exhibition of her studies at the Fine Arts Guild Monday. The group will remain in Cambridge until Saturday...
...Miss Abbott has exhibited in Berlin, Paris, New York City, and San Francisco, and brings her photographs to Cambridge from the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield...
Down upon the dining students of Harvard's Lowell House stare portraits of poet James Russell Lowell, President emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Astronomer Percival Lowell. The dining students of Lowell House stare down upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken...
Ever since collectors began noticing how the oil paintings of James Abbott McNeill Whistler have cracked, faded and fallen to pieces in 30 years there has been an ever-increasing interest among serious painters in the chemistry of their craft. Before the Brothers van Eyck popularized the use of oils in the 15th Century, almost all painting was either in fresco (pure pigment mixed with water and applied to wet plaster) or in tempera (ground pigments mixed with beaten egg and water and applied either to wood or canvas that is prepared with a plaster-like ground). Oil painting...