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Both Memorial Hall and the Union will receive special decoration for the weekend dances, but the committee would not reveal the central motif. Decorations for the Jubilee in Mem Hall last year were highly successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Jubilee Starts Tonight; Special Ticket Reduction | 5/12/1950 | See Source »

...Crimson Key plans to fly in over 1000 orchids by specially refrigerated place from Mexico to provide the motif for its "Orchids and Moonlight Dance." The dance will take place on April 29, during the All-College Weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Key to Give Free Orchids at Dance | 3/23/1950 | See Source »

...open-house lawn party for the following afternoon, and the Crimson Key is sponsoring a formal dance for Saturday night. Harry Marshard's orchestra will paly at the informal Friday affair. The dance will be called "Carnival Capers," and Memorial Hall will be decorated in a circus motif...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 'Circus' Dance to Open College Weekend | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Moscow's Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Metro | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...taken great pains to integrate the bridge with Harvard. It proposed to the Legislature that it be dedicated to Charles W. Eliot, 1853, president of the University between 1869 and 1909, and the Commission had its architects stress the Harvard motif throughout the design. The facing of the bridge will be done in expensive fancy brickwork and granite in imitation of the Houses; the four gates to the MDC garages under the abutments will be of wrought iron copied from the gates to the Yard; and on the face of each main pier will appear gothic capital...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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