Word: creation
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...Triangle Club is that of Booth Tarkington '93. Under his executive guidance, the name of the organization was changed to its present title. This change was calculated to broaden the scope of the club's activity, and in pursuance of his aim for a wider field of undergraduate creation, he wrote and produced "The Honorable Julius Caesar," a travesty on the original set to music...
...country, and earned the sincere commendation of press and public alike. The piece was purged of every vestige of professionalism: it was an undergraduate product from start to finish, Student efforts in the field of acting, singing, dancing, coaching, playwrighting, composing, orchestration, designing and execution of scenery and costumes, creation of electrical effects, financial management and publicity placed a smooth and meritorious production before more than 60,000 people in New York, Syracuse, Buffalo, Columbus, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Newark, Montclair, Baltimore, Washington, Brooklyn, West Point and Princeton...
...Oriental Museum in the University of Chicago the finest of the kind in the United States." For a long time the University of Pennsylvania has held that place, its claims founded upon its discoveries in Babylonia and its possession of the Nippur tablets with their accounts of the creation of man and the flood. Dr. Breasted is well known among scholars, and he has the hustling qualities of a business man as well. He was the first American to traverse the Arab state and he encountered real risks in the journey. But he has his reward for chief among...
...Musee du Luxembourg has prospered under his direction. It is to M. Benedite that France owes the interesting creation, in this museum of a foreign-art section, which today comprises more than 300 canvasses, and among which Americans are represented by sixty paintings and about ten sculptures. M. Benedite has been intimately connected with many great American masters, among whom were Whistler, Saint-Gandens, and John La Farge. Just before his death, Whistler designated M. Benedite to organize his posthumous exposition...
...Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Czecho-Slovak Republic. He is an American by nationality, who went over to Europe, impelled by his interest in the new Republic. While there he became connected with the Bureau of National Information and has travelled all over the country since its creation by the Peace Conference. He has made a special study of the Czecho-Slovak constitution, which is generally regarded as the groundwork of the most advanced democracy in the world. In America he is lecturing on what he considers the merits and faults of the constitution and on the general condition...