Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Examples are shown of the types of work made famous by the Aldine bindery of Venice which in the 16th century popularized the eastern art of gilding the leather tooling of fine bindings. Also included are examples of the famous geometric style of book decoration fostered by Jean Grolier, French nobleman of the 16th century, whose library of 8,000 volumes was reputed to be the finest private collection of his day. Among the artisans represented are LeGascon, 17th century French binder; and Roger Payne, famous 18th century British book designer...
Prall, the subtle theorist of esthetic problems, is evidently irritated beyond endurance by Sorokin's treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...
Because of the injury situation Chuck Klein was at right guard, Fred Jerome blocking back, Art Oakes and Frank Foley at the wing and tailback positions respectively, and Ralph Pope at bucking back...
...extension and development of governmental aid for medicine last week, they were not only setting an example of leadership consonant with the Harvard medical tradition, but making a very definite contribution to the advancement of the practice in America. For while the proposals for the increased endowment of the art of healing by government for the benefit of the population do not represent anything new in the way of medical thought, the realization that immediate steps are needed to improve the condition of the "medically indigent" in the community demands that steps be taken...
...history, art, philosophy, and letters of this country, Harvard has gathered specialists who not only teach but also practice their calling. The student has the rare privilege of learning the history of this oldest living democracy from such men as Morison, Schlesinger and Buck, of reading its literature under Matthiessen, Murdock, and Jones, and of studying its changing thought under Perry and Hocking, themselves able philosophers. So far as pure academic knowledge goes, other fields are equally well covered; but their contributions to the student are infinitely smaller...