Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program follows, the order of the speakers being arranged by lot: Daniel Webster--His Genius and Character, Edward Everett Josiah David Segal '21. The Spell of the Yukon, Robert Service William McHenry Keyser '20. The Artist's Secret, Olive Schreiner Joseph Turkel '21. An Ode of Dedication (1917), Hermann Hagedorn Charles William Eliot, 2d, '20. The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe Malcolm Howard Dill '20. The New World--To the People of the United States, Lawrence Benyon Benjamin Isadore Sperling '21. The Execution of Rodriguez, Richard Harding Davis Frederick Clifton Packard, Jr., '20. On Resistance to Great Britain, Patrick Henry Bung...
...place, the management has transferred the pictures of athletic teams which formerly decorated the walls, to positions along the stairways, and is hanging in their stead a number of paintings borrowed from Memorial Hall, Fogg Museum, and other college buildings. Among these paintings is one by Blackburn, the Colonial artist, of Johannes Lowell, a former Fellow and benefactor of the University, several portraits of other prominent graduates and officers, and a work by Felix Ziem of a view in Venice. The stag and elk heads and athletic trophies will, of course, be kept in the room...
Billy Glason, who gives some songs and jokes of the Al Jolson type, was enthusiastically received. Other entertainers are Tozart in an original act as "The Vagabond Artist," Maryan Vochi, who does some skillful too-dancing, Aleen Bronson, in a clever school-girl part, Hobson and Beatty, Finlay and Hill, and Mile, La Toy's canine models...
...Ford's factory can learn his job in two days. That is the length of professional training required. Compare this with the law school and medical school, which last three and four years and require a college degree before hand. Compare it with the training of an artist or a singer. There you have something of a measure of the comparative value of the expressive pursuits--what we call the professions--and of the sort of work to which the victory of the machine has condemned a large majority of mankind. Our industrial system provides a life of fools...
With careful and patience guidance Sammy should become one of those rare mortals--an artist...