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Moors held out until the last minutes of the second half, when Linette Peter and Lydia Hurd quit the field because of injuries, leaving the squad with only two halfbacks, one fullback, and a goalie to ward off a determined Eliot and Whitman team...
Fall intramurals in archery wound up with Briggs Hall tallying 402 points for top honors. Eliot and Moors were runners-up with 372 and 355. Lydia Hurd '51 came through with the highest individual score, 235 for a regular Columbia Round in the experienced division...
...expert horseman and polo player, and a guitarist with a minor but determined talent, Peter Hurd looks, talks and dresses like a genial cowboy, is thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
Trying to Be Clear. Hurd keeps a changing show of other men's art in his studio (last week it was pictures of Picasso's ceramics), says that he has "no quarrel with any school of painting." At 45, he describes himself as "looking inside, trying to be clear as to what I want to say. There are a lot of young painters coming along now that seem to have no idea about that. They either feel they must paint every hair on nature's lip or deny the whole works...
...pictures miss few of the hairs. Using the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting on wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the deserts and clear bright light of New Mexico are as knowing and sincere as an honest man's praise of his own family...