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...thousands of bedaubed revelers who annually roister through Manhattan's Beaux-Arts Ball realize that their patronage indirectly helps to raise money to send one architectural student to Paris for two-and-a-half years. Last week in Manhattan the beneficiary of last winter's ball was announced. He was Paul Malcolm Heffernan, 26, of Ames, Iowa, who studied architecture at Harvard. Completely surprised, Winner Heffernan blushed, stammered...
...Manhattan for a final problem. This year, however, instead of being allowed to finish that problem at home where instructors sometimes lent a helping hand, four finalists were put through a test which suggested the ancient Pa-ku-wen of Imperial China.* In the exhibition hall of the Beaux-Arts Building carpenters built four little cubicles of composition board. Each was furnished with a drawing board, reading light, stool, ash trays, sets of drawing instruments and water colors. Just outside stood four army cots. Then for three successive weekends the four contestants were shut in these closets for 36 hours...
...York, with a small slot in the door through which meals were served to him, Paul N. Heffernan of the Harvard Architectural School last night concluded a 36-hour vigil in competition for a fellowship which will mean two and a half years of study at the Ecole des Beaux Architects for the winner...
...recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre Cabanel and Edouard Frere, he became one of the most persistent of salon exhibitors. Between 1868 and 1895 Henry Bacon's name appears 25 times on the Beaux Arts lists, his canvases always being hung "on the line." Two of his pictures which became best sellers as steel engravings: The Boston Boys & General Gage, Little Bopeep...
...York, March 3, Announcement was made here tonight that Harvard is represented among a narrowed field of four surviving competitors selected for a third and final eliminative competition for ultimate award of 28th Paris Prize in Architecture of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects carrying an annual stipend of $1,440 a year for 2 1-2 years...