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City planning has come greatly into the foreground during the last few years because several hundred cities have taken action to provide for future growth through the medium of a trained city planner. The demand for these men has been so large in recent years as to cause the School of Landscape Architecture to make this move in the direction of supplying that demand...
...right is technically a more daring attempt. The artist has represented a life like column of marching soldiers in uniform, blending realistic details with symbolic. The file of men crosses the panel diagonally from upper right to lower left, marching forward until they are almost life-size in the foreground. Alongside the marching column appear the symbolic figures of three women, on an heroic scale, grasping the outstretched hands of the soldiers. In the arms of the foremost, who is dressed in a blue cape and red liberty cap, there lies a slumbering infant. Behind her marches an older figure...
There is a good deal of sun-light after all in those sketches, perhaps at moments one misees; the sense of the pervading wetness of England. And one is trivially disappointed in the far views of Durham and Lincoln that there should be no sheep tranquilly grazing in the foreground. For sheep are an inevitable part of the landscape of the English cathedral close. But perhaps Mr. Conant's pencil rebelled at anything so soft, so woolly and so un-architectural as a sheep...
This year's performance has much interest and variety. China is given the foreground, for the opening piece. "Two in One", and the number that closes the entertainment, are both Chinese in subject matter and execution. The first is a typical Chinese act, and the second is a farce entitled "Beating the Village God". The actors are all Chinese students at the University. The English, and also the American number is a one-act play, "X-O, A Night of the Trojan War," by Mr. John Drinkwater. Philippine songs, Russian music, and an Egyptian Slave Dance complete the program...
...Moslem question. In his talk he brought in his experiences in close contact with these problems, and used them to show that because of his peculiarly marked position, a Christian Missionary is the best equipped man to cope with such difficulties. The religious question is to the foreground in Moslem countries, and missionaries are but starting a structure that will last through the ages...