Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last February the Treasury Department announced a national competition for a 24-ft. mural for the Department of the Interior's new auditorium. The competition closed April 30 with 310 entries. The judges conferred briefly, then voted unanimously for one design...
...went for confirmation, and on his desk it lay for a full five weeks while newshawks waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
Also today were announced the bylaws of the Inter House Athletic Council to be composed of the Athletic Secretary of each House, one House Master chosen at a meeting of all the Masters, and the Director of Iatra Mural Athletics and the Director of Athletics...
...largest (24 ft. by 9 ft.) exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art show last week was a watercolor copy of a rock painting from Mtoko Cave in Southern Rhodesia. Covering a complete wall the Mtoko cave mural is a comprehensive prehistoric art collection in itself. Almost invisible, all the way across the top reach two hazy white elephants. Drawn in profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic...
...fact that the Houses are so much bigger should enable them eventually, when the new plans for central organization mature, to carry on intra-mural athletics more successfully, as is already the case in crew and tackle football. Princeton's rink gives them the edge in hockey, and the popularity which this has received as an intra-mural sport should be an added argument for a Harvard rink...