Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...encouraged. It is to be expected that these institutions, once well established, will attract away from the universities those annual hundreds of men and women who, frankly do not belong there, and on whom, ultimately rests the responsibility for much of the juvenile absurdity which the state universities everywhere exhibit in greater or less degree...
...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
Last week, art came into its own at Atlanta, Ga. A public-spirited citizen had given it a home. The Grand Central Galleries of Manhattan had furnished an exhibit. The excitement of the event was emotionally reflected in front page news columns. For example, a news article in the Atlanta Constitution...
...purpose of the exhibit is primarily to stimulate interest in art-collecting as a hobby...
...term "objects of artistic merit" is used in a broad sense, to embrace painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, pottery, glassware, textiles, brassware, pewter bronzes and ironwork. Although the objects submitted will be subject to approval, any articles having intrinsic art value will be accepted. As this is the first exhibit of the kind, there are no established traditions, and students may hesitate to offer their cherished bits, for this reason, it is asked that it be understood that the actual market prices, if such there be for works of art, have no bearing on the value for the exhibit...