Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition consists in the design of a summer tea-room grounds with a New England Colonial garden, supposed to be situated on Cape Cod. This is the twelfth competition for the trophy, which was presented by an unknown donor in 1912. It is open to all students in the School of Landscape Architecture, but members of courses 2b and 3b in Landscape Architecture are required to enter drawings. The jury and date of award will be announced later. These competitions serve to give the students of Landscape Architecture opportunity to put their knowledge to a practical application...
...College Observatory has received word by cable of the discovery of a comet by Skjellerup, the South African astronomer, at Cape Town on November 26. The comet was described as faint, and the position given was in the constellation of Crater...
...central figure of the panel at the left is a wounded soldier, bearing in his arms the figures of Death and Victory. Death is represented by a drooping figure enveloped in a black cape and hood, while Victory is a female form bearing branches of palm leaves, and held aloft by huge gray wings. On the ground beneath the feet of the three are the bodies of fallen soldiers. In the topmost section of the panel, Mr. Sargent has represented two archangels with trumpets proclaiming victory, while on scrolls flying from the trumpet heads are inscribed the words "Death...
...right to lower left, marching forward until they are almost life-size in the foreground. Alongside the marching column appear the symbolic figures of three women, on an heroic scale, grasping the outstretched hands of the soldiers. In the arms of the foremost, who is dressed in a blue cape and red liberty cap, there lies a slumbering infant. Behind her marches an older figure, her half-veiled face and drooping posture expressive of great sorrow. She bears in one hand a broken sword while her arm is held by two soldiers. The third female figure stands near the center...
...freedom as opposed to the unifying force of Catholicism. If this is true of Protestantism in general, small-town New England has been one of its hardest fought battle-grounds. Typical of the spirit is the story of the travelling salesman a generation ago who stopped in a Cape Cod village to pass the time of day with a customer, deacon of one of the four village churches, and asked casually about its welfare. "Well," replied the deacon, "we're three hunderd in debt. But," he added cheerfully, "the others is worse...