Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, the President was made an honorary member of the American Press Society (see p. 49), had been asked to resign by the Newspaper Guild, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is a member. High point of the Press Club dinner was the unveiling of a 28 by 12 ft. mural by PWArtist Andre Pizzini and Washington Cartoonist James T. Berryman (see cut, p. 15). The mural shows the President at the centre having his picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner...
...simple, lush feeling is one of the qualities which have enabled Wyeth to score even more imaginative knockouts on Christmas book readers than his teacher. In 30 years he has done illustrations for 24 juvenile classics for Scribner's alone, some 500 color paintings and several highly-paid mural jobs...
Delacroix, whom Renoir called the greatest artist of the French school, died in 1863 after having fought for a lifetime against the flawless but colorless classicism upheld by his great contemporary, Ingres. His three most important mural jobs, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery...
...announcement of a $200,000 athletic endowment fund by President Conant of Harvard has set a precedent that will reverberate on the intercollegiate horizon for some time to come. Designed to free Varsity and intra-mural sports forever from the somewhat hazardous support rendered by the box-office sports the latest addition to the Cambridge institution's bulwark against the taint of professionalism has set her on a pinnacle of amateurism reached by only a few hinterland teachers' colleges...
With this in mind the picture of Harvard in the years hence is pleasing to consider, for with intra-mural and intercollegiate sports alike looking to the University for support and direction, and with the academic garden flowering with endowments to attract to the University leading men in the educational field, both professors and students, Harvard should be an even more well rounded institution than it is today. But in the meantime it is to be hoped that the athletic endowment continues to grow, and President Conant has contributed to that end by putting the need for athletic endowment...