Word: mower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence I to Dunster House to lunch and after an exceedingly fine conversation on plans for the Tercentenary Celebration, I to the large common room for coffee and to see an exhibition of the paintings of Mr. Martin Mower. And Lord! I am pretty well pleased. Professor Sachs, who be responsible for this exhibition, tells me Mr. Mower be one of the distinguished painters and art connoisseurs of our time. I also note Mrs. Gardiner of Fenway Court, whose judgment in these matters was exceeding good--did purchase some of Mr. Mower's works and also gave an exhibition...
...know I do not have a very good background to judge these matters technically, yet these paintings, I do not hesitate to say; please me much; though I have heard some say many of the works do look like grand railroad posters. I did try to talk with Mr. Mower but so many fine ladies around all a bubble to compliment him -- and yet I doubt if they said much either--that I could not ask or hear much with him himself. And for this I was sore at my heart, for this be Mr. Mower's last term with...
...exhibition of paintings by Martin Mower '99 will open in the Junior Common Room tomorrow. A tea will be served from 4 to 6 o'clock sponsored by Mrs. Martin Mower, Mrs. Paul J. Sachs, and Mrs. Clarence H. Haring...
...Mower has been a lecturer on Fine Arts in Harvard since 1898. His paintings include landscapes, portraits, and still life...
...many professors have answered to the Vagabond's requests for names of their lectures during the next semester. And I did also see a note from Professor Haring announcing that Dunster House will have another art exhibition early in February, this time of the paintings of Mr. Martin Mower. And I was exceedingly pleased to learn that other Houses are planning similar loan exhibitions of well known painters. Yet I do earnestly hope that similarity of activities among the Houses will not be encouraged: For, to reinterpret the old proverb, birds of a feather, really never get anyplace...