Word: augustus
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...show. On opening day, the doors of London's little Leicester Galleries had parted promptly at 10 o'clock and the corduroy-jacketed clique of fellow artists hurried in for a long, appraising look. If anyone came with doubts, there was colorful evidence on every side that Augustus Edwin John's considerable gifts are still as full-blown and as fresh as they were when he gave his first exhibition, 49 years...
...fashionable as John Singer Sargent once was, and his portraits come high (?1,000 and up); but he gets along fine without Sargent's dramatic slickness. What's more, his art, admittedly academic, has enough sparkle to put the stuffy Academicians to shame. At 70, Augustus John and his works are living proof that it makes very little difference what "school" a really good artist belongs...
...Europe becomes more helpless, the Americans are compelled to become farseeing and responsible, as Rome was forced by the long decline of Greece to produce an Augustus, a Vergil . . . Something important is about to happen, as if the wonderful jeunesse of America were suddenly to retain their idealism and vitality and courage and imagination into adult life, and become the wise and good who make use of them; the old dollar values are silently crumbling, and the selfcriticism, experimental curiosity, sensibility and warmth [of America] are on then-way in. For Americans change very fast...
Also elected to the slate of Alumni officers, who will take office after Commencement Day and serve for one year, were three vice-presidents: Dr. Augustus Thorndike '19, Geoffrey S. Smith '22, and Courtland S. Gross...
...Augustus Thorndike '17, chief surgeon of the Hygiene Department, and a wartime Medical Corps Colonel, originated the plan when he returned to Harvard after the war. At the time, Veterans Hospitals were so overcrowded that the rehabilitation they could offer was limited to getting men out of a hospital bed. Dr. Thorndike planned to continue the work at Harvard...