Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus spake immortal Albrecht Dürer who could and did portray all visible things whatsoever which were chosen by his often niggling patrons. Last week in his native city-quaint, medieval, storied Nuremberg-men paused to remember that Albrecht Dürer died there just four hundred years ago...
Philip L. Kale's Aphrodite of the Sea Gulls, a large canvas and well hung, was possibly the most striking picture in the show, not for its originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's...
Though there are some who might wish that the growth and development, indeed the mere maintainance, of American universities did not depend so much on a highly refined and generally accepted form of begging, no fault is to be found with those who carry on this occupation for worthy ends...
Harvard's canvas, never really idle, any more than is the canvas of any privately owned educational institution, today is spread for the cause of better indoor athletic facilities. That this cause is among the worthiest no visitor to Hemenway will deny. And even an athletic agnostic will be tempted...
It is interesting, also to see what he writers of our "purpose" on earth: as to the ultimate purpose of human existence, he is at a loss, though he does say that Science, far from eliminating the supreme Life-giver, tries to proceed hand in hand with Him. "Is it...