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...WHITE FLOWER-Another of those Hawaiian pictures concerning a beautiful half-caste with too many beaux of different shades of pigment. Well-photographed and with interesting bits of local color...
...members of the University School of Architecture and the Department of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give a "Fete Charrettte" tomorrow evening in the Hemenway gymnasium which will be modelled on the annual "Fete d'Ecole" of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The historical period which has been set is that of Medieval Constantinople, within which the setting of the ball, decorations and costumes will be confined. The variety of costumes may, however, range throughout the entire body of characters who might conceivably have sojourned in Constantinople between the fall of the Roman Empire...
...idea was derived from a custom at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris of carrying the drawings from the draughting tables to the judgment room by means of a small push-cart--a charrette. . . so that when a student is particularly rushed with his work he is said to be working "en charrette". In America this means expending a great effort. In Paris once a year the Ecole gives a large entertainment called the "Fete d'Ecole" the idea of which the University School has enlarged upon with its "Fete Charrette...
Professor Haffner came from France a year ago to accept a professorship at the University Architectural School. He ranks as a winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, one of the highest honors to which architects aspire. In 1904 he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he was one of the most prominent students. Among other honors at the Ecole, he won first prize in the Concours Chevenard, the Concours Roux, and the Concours Rongevin, but it was not until 1914, a short time before the war broke out, that he received the Grand Prix de Rome...
...Landscape Architecture, it is hoped to build up in Cambridge a center of artistic study and practice. Such a group would offer a great opportunity for expert training, and "friendly competition" with Technology and the art schools of Boston would become an American counterpart of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In working towards such a goal Dean Edgell and his associates are materially contributing to the expansion of Harvard as a true university...