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...handed in during the competition held last winter. The designer's idea and groundwork were excellent, but the shields as finally molded are also the result of Professor J. S. Humphrey's and Professor A. Pope's efforts, for they made a number of changes in the contour. With the exception of the individual dormitory seals, an owl for Standish, a bull's head for Gore, and the Harvard "veritas" for Smith, the design of each trophy is identically the same...
...will meet one afternoon in the week at Holden Chapel, where equipment will be distributed for use in sketching. The grounds of the Astronomical Laboratory will be used for next week's sketching trip. Later on, excursions will be made to Fresh Pond and other points suitable for contour work...
...into the "well spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically. For the blending of light and shade, harmony, and grace of contour, he was almost unsurpassed...
...looked down upon the chains of Regulus! Although no nosce te is emblazoned on the portal, a symbol more expressive than the Delphic inscription stands out in bold relief on the front of this column-supported vestibule; there, forgetful of the tennis-court, rests the well-proportioned athlete, whose contour indicates that Greek repose which our multiplex university studies make almost impossible in modern...
...face of sweet contour...