Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conductor Damrosch told of many proud experiences, of being decorated in Spain by King Alfonso with the Medal of Isabella the Catholic, of conducting the Madrid Symphony. He said of the music situation in Spain: "The Madrid Symphony Orchestra is to be congratulated on its unusual enthusiasm which enables it to hold high the torch and keep the organization going when they are so poorly and inadequately paid. Strangely enough there are no aristocrats in Spain interested enough in music to serve as patrons or in any way to encourage musical development. The rank and file of the Spanish people...
...their catalogs for names of their countrymen, to see what they had been learning from the Continental masters. One of the first pieces they paused before was a bronze "Aphrodite" by Sculptor Rudolph Evans, the young man from the Corcoran Gallery in Washington whose "Golden Hour" won him a medal and fame at the salon of 1914 and now reposes, a radiant study of adolescent gravity, in a specially lighted domed room at the home of Banker Frank A. Vanderlip...
...Three Chevaliers of the Latin Quarter were there-F. A. Bridgman, the 79-year-old Alabaman who paints in Algiers mostly and won his first salon medal in 1877; George Rowland of New York, aged 61, landscapist; and T. Alexander Harrison, 73, originally a Philadelphian but, like the other two, so long a resident of France that his hands have learned to talk, and the feeling of his landscapes takes you back to the best days of the Barbizon school. All three are members of the Legion d'Honneur; all three have contributed to the spring salon since...
Heroism is a salamander virtue. Sometimes fear wakes immortal courage in a craven; avarice will make a miser brave; an infantryman who got the Congressional Medal for taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report...
...Eugene Dodd Medal is an anonymous gift to the School of Architecture, and is awarded this year for the first time. Hereafter it is to be presented annually. It is given to the student in the School of Architecture who is most proficient in Free-hand Drawing and in Water Color...