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...year around outdoor sports are a feature of Stanford, life. With an eighteen hole golf course, three outdoor swimming pools, acres of rolling foothills for the equestrian enthusiasts, and two lakes on the campus itself (the lakes reminiscent of Wellesley on spring evenings) many have difficulty in regularly attending classes...
...horse between his knees. The horse, swinging sideways to avoid rough going in the road, is balanced by the figure of Folke, who leans outward and downward, searching the road in another direction. There is a tragic bend and twist and movement to the piece seldom found in an equestrian statue...
Hard is the life of a portraitist. Bitterly did British sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman realize this last week. Year ago he won a competition to design an equestrian memorial statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...
While there could be no doubt whatever that the second Hardiman horse was a very bad horse, art critics regarded the controversy last week as part of the bitterness that seems always to follow equestrian sculpture. When the late great "'Marse Henry" Watterson, Confederate scout, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, first saw St. Gaudens' equestrian statue of General Sherman being led by an angel, he said: "Just like the - - to make the lady walk...
...will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap near Madrid. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday...