Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Renaissance; 2) the light "feminine" periods such as 18th Century, Empire, Directoire; 3) the neoclassic; 4) the Colonial; 5) the modernistic. Standard Sanitary emphasizes the neoclassic; Crane the Renaissance; Kohler the "Metropolitan," a modernistic style which, according to an exposition salesman, "means as much as Standard's neo-classic." But all three master plumbers plumb in all periods...
...typography, and their fine presswork. "The Colophon, A Book Collectors Quarterly," in which each article is printed by a different printer, is one of the most interesting volumes shown. There are also several Rockwell items including: his "Book Plates," lithographs for a gorgeous edition of "Beowulf," and his classic edition of Voltaire's "Candide." A fine edition of Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" with illustrations by Donald McKay is also shown...
...metallic accompaniment of golden keys, the members of the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa will demonstrate their versatility tomorrow when they take their positions upon the Freshman diamond on Soldiers Field to open the annual baseball classic against their Yale brethren. Tomorrow the Harvard scholars will be seeking their first victory in three years. In 1930 the Elis won by the comfortable margin of 50 to 2, and last spring the score...
...single course in the Classics in translation would supply the need. Such a survey, covering the principal writers of ancient Greece and Rome, could, if conducted in a proper manner, avoid many of the defects of survey courses in literature. It should not consist merely in memorizing the literary and stylistic characteristics of the men considered, and it would be devoted to the matter and method rather than to the language of the writers. The authors might be considered as an expression of classic civilization, or they might be read with principal attention to their affect on modern writers...
Winding up a rather discouraging, but not discreditable short race season with a defeat by Syracuse and Cornell last Saturday, the Crimson oarsmen tomorrow resume training for the four mile classic with Yale, entraining for New London Saturday...