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...Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was opposed to the nude in sculpture and would have none of it in his collection. Barnard's own superb masculine nude, The Hewer, may have had something to do with the magnate's conversion, for Rockefeller was so struck that he bought it for his own gardens...
...become a much more appreciable quantity in college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged from his bed and given the pump bath. He was caused...