Word: mural
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris." Of the 15 applicants the jury retained 3 for further consideration-A. Clemens Finley, Jr., T. C. Richards, both students of the National Academy of Design (Manhattan) and M. J. Mueller, of the Yale University School of Fine Arts. These three were given four weeks to submit a mural on the subject Spring. Although his painting was not completed, the jury (composed of E. H. Blashfield, F. C. Jones, Douglas Volk, Eugene Savage and Russell Cowles) voted for Finley because of the soundness of his composition. He will sail shortly for Rome. "Magic Needle...
Preparations were begun yesterday at the Widener Library for the cutting of an inscription in the panel over the doorway between the Sargent mural paintings. The inscription was originally planned in connection with the paintings, but its cutting was delayed at the time of their installation last fall. The work started yesterday will not be completed until after Commencement...
...French archeologists discovered at Saliyeh in Syria a buried Greek city founded just after the death of Alexander the Great and abandoned in 273 A. D. It contained a parchment written in 189 B. C.,"said to be the oldest Greek manuscript extant," and important mural paintings...
...intra-mural sports were substituted entirely for the present system of intercollegiate competition," he continued, "there would not be the training which is such an important factor in the system in vogue today. Indifference about practice and training would be the inevitable aftermath of such an innovation, and we would lose the outstanding feature--discipline Furthermore, in the event that five or six of the best players were quartered in the same dormitory, the competition would be obviously unfair I maintain that intercollegiate contests with Yale are necessary in order to maintain a standard of discipline and training which...
...their being overemphasized. "Our budget reaches no such proportions," said Major Moors when the reporter quoted from $20,000 to $40,000 as the reported figure of the cost for a season, "for outside of the Princeton trip there is no large item which would not exist in intra-mural competition. The coaching would not be so varied and intensive perhaps, but under the present system men are prepared in the same manner as candidates for the University squad. Skilled supervision such as we give is distinctly to the advantage of men as a means of instilling discipline and training...