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...crowned its notable 1936-3 7 season with a comprehensive exhibit of the very latest artistic wrinkle, Surrealism. With a vertiginous backward leap 200 centuries into the Fourth Ice Age, the Museum last week wound up its season by presenting an extraordinary collection of Prehistoric Rock Pictures. Director Alfred Barr Jr. saw no paradox. He recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted so that the community might eat." Nevertheless, said he: "The formal...
Harvard Varsity golfers are Lewis McGowan, George Enos, Frank Appleton, Archie Foster, Bob Sides, John Barr, and James Brown...
Such amateurs of the flute as Rockwell Kent and Charles Gates Dawes know how hard it is to play correctly. Great flautists like New York's Georges Barrère or Philadelphia's William Kincaid have taken years to perfect themselves. Flute technique is hard because a flautist cannot see his lips or the air coming from them, but none the less his lips must be properly shaped, his wind properly directed. A flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column...
With John McKelvey as editor-in-chief, the 54-page Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Harvard Law Review appeared in April 1887. Bound with the same drab olive paper which has been used ever since, the first issue featured an article by Harvard's James Barr Ames on Purchase for Value Without Notice, went to 300 subscribers. Just as Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell's methods of case study became the guide for all U. S. law schools,*the Harvard Law Review quickly became the prototype for law reviews. The Columbia Law Times appeared...
...game. The line-ups: DUNSTER (11) ADAMS (8) Briggs, 2b lf, Cavin Norman, p c, Howe Cummings, cf 2b, Hauck Ford, 3b p, Wiley Pamp, lf ss, Van Slyke Hunter, 1b 1b, Soden Flun, rf cf, Fletcher Blackwood, ss 3b, Mason George, c rf, Findley SUBS: Logan, cf Barr, lf Perry...