Word: mural
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maker of schedules or a business executive. He will be a member of the Faculty with all the prestige of a professor of Greek or History; and rightly so, for his is a province no less important. He will supervise not only intercollegiate athletics but also interclass and intra-mural games. The extension of the athletics-for-all policy will be as much one of his problems as the affairs of a major-sport team. Moreover, he will form a valuable link between the athletic and academic phases of University life...
...urbane and well slicked Manhattan mob twittered about the famed Anderson Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...
...most important of any is John J. Mitchell, President of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. Last week, on the walls of his bank, in gold letters several feet high, he set up a creed. The mural apothegms were none of them original, but they added no mean lustre to the commemoration of Banker Mitchell's 72nd birthday, his 52nd year in banking. They ran as follows...
...under their own leadership? That is the way in tennis, and baseball, and other sports, and used to be the custom with football, even when there were no intercollegiate football matches. And that was the way in hockey when young graduates used to play organized teams until the extra-mural game got into the hands of professionals, forcing amateurs to drop...
Class football, to be played this fall for the first time since before the war, and extending the scope of intra-mural athletics, will begin today at Soldiers' Field. In preparation for an interclass series to be started at the end of the month, all upper-classmen wishing to play class football will report to Coach J. L. Knox '98 at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The nucleus for the three upper-class teams will be drawn from Coach Knox's second University squad...