Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland he has two studios, one downtown for work, another for parties at his swank country place. "Beaverbrook." The Beaverbrook studio is built at the water's edge so that Ceramist Ait ken can shoot ducks from the window. All the furniture in this studio has been specially designed by Ceramist Aitken, from the polished maple radio to the bronze portrait of himself. The ceramics in his bathroom are of standard design...
...used Latin wording on its diplomas, but it has been decided that hereafter only those degrees which need Latin to fulfill their requirements will be engraved in the traditional manner. All of the newer degrees, such as Business, Engineering, and Associate of Arts will hereafter be printed after a design by Bruce Rogers, internationally known designer...
...Arts degrees will be in seventeenth century style, but the wording has been left practically unchanged. The degrees for law, medicine, and philosophy will follow models used in the lats eighteenth century. Still a different design will be drawn for honorary degrees and will be ready in time for the Tercentennial ceremonies...
Successful attempts to photograph the eye in color were made in 1927-28 by Dr. Lawrence Redway of New York. The machine in use at the present time was built by Carl Zeiss in Germany on Dr. Redway's design. A special camera that takes a 4 1/2s6cm. Alga color plate stands on a vertical arm. It is franked by two light sources and in front of it is a chin rest for the subject. The lens is an F: 4.5. The two main modifications that have been made from the original plans are the substitution of incandescent light...
Having decided month ago that a number of eminent U. S. painters were also worthy artists, the stodgy National Academy of Design last week relaxed still further and admitted, 84 years after the death of Daguerre, that photography is an art. For the first time in the Academy's history it sponsored an exhibition of photographic prints at its musty Manhattan headquarters. It called the show "the most notable demonstration of artistic skill by means of the camera which has been displayed in this country...