Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florentine Verrocchio is best known for his enormous and powerful equestrian statue of the hawk-faced Renaissance condottiere, Bartolommeo Colleoni, in Venice, and his elegant bronze figure of David astride Goliath's head; also for the fact that he was Leonardo da Vinci's first teacher and was said to have turned from painting to sculpture when his precocious pupil surpassed...
...clever, ugly young man opened a private school in an English village, hoping to support his new wife by drumming Latin into boys' heads. Few came to Samuel Johnson's school; one of those who did was 19-year-old David Garrick, son of a shabby-genteel army captain. Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries. When the school collapsed for lack of students, the awkward Johnson and the terrier-like Garrick...
Freshman debators collected their third straight win on Saturday afternoon at Wesleyan. David L. Auerbach '52 and Albert J. Lichtenberg '52 argued for the Crimson...
Applications for Student Council Scholarships will be available in the Council's Phillips Brooks House offices from 2 to 5 pm. every afternoon this week and next, David L. McMurtrie '49, co-chairman of the Council's Student Welfare Committee, announced last night...
...Winthrop Nelson '47 assumed the presidency of the Appleton Club last Thursday at the student religious group's bi-annual election meeting. M. Frank Reid '50 was elected vice-president, Richard E. Smeltzer '49 secretary, and David B. Evans '50 treasurer...