Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bronze medal of the Art Institute of Chicago. He remembered U. S. primitives-Currier & Ives prints and old furniture catalogs. lowans bought his new pictures with as much pleasure as conscience. He painted The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover at West Branch. Of his famed American Gothic, portraits of a Mid-Western farmer & wife, Christopher Morley wrote: "In those sad and fanatical faces may be read much, both of what is Right and what is Wrong with America." Most lowans saw on the canvas only the hard, exact details of Iowa. They were flattered that Iowa's boy chose...
Pomp & Circumstance. Punctual Mr. Baldwin was the first delegate to arrive at Canada's handsome, Gothic House of Commons for the opening of the Conference. He took the seat occupied at Parliamentary sessions by the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Liberal Ex-Premier, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in Canada and advocate of a policy of close rapprochement with the U. S., from which Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett has suavely but firmly receded...
...addition to the publication of the honors thesis, "Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School" by W. W. Watt '32, the Committee for the Publication of Honor Theses in English has announced that the College will print one other honors thesis as a prize essay from the balance of a gift made last year by H. N. Straus...
...Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School", a thesis written by William Why'te Watt '32, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, will be published according to the decision of the Committee of the Publication of Honors Thesis in English. Watt's thesis will be the only one printed this year...
With the announcement that Memorial Hall is at last to be fireproofed and used as a storage vault for college records there arises a vague satisfaction that at last some definite use has been found for the old gothic pile. For years, Memorial Hall has stood empty and scorned, with only the occasional tramping of feet directed toward examination desks and convention chairs to remind the dusky shades of halcyon days when windows were bright and unpainted, and biscuits whistled through the air of the popular college beanery...