Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Increased Intra-Mural Program...
...athletic director pointed out that the Junior Varsity teams would actually be incorporated in the intra-mural program, and that accomodations for the growing House sports system, particularly in hockey, were under consideration. This means an added expense for intra-mural sports as a whole...
...Nelson showed his independence and his taste by hiring his friend Diego Rivera to paint a fresco for Rockefeller Center. This turned into a famous, first-class educational incident for all concerned. When Rivera's great mural was destroyed-for the public reason that it contained a portrait of Lenin-the Rockefeller family suffered once more in the eyes of liberals, and Nelson, naturally, took the rap. At first he was strong for showing the mural, sins and all, at the Museum of Modern Art. Then he came around to his father's view that the less said...
...Delphic Studios a 29-year-old Bolivian artist, Roberto Berdecio, friend and disciple of Artist Siqueiros, displayed a number of experimental paintings and two large murals which proved beyond any doubt that "the mechanical brush" is capable of a wide range of artistic effects. Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present...
This is all very similar to the English system, where intra-mural athletics exist to the exclusion of everything but the final game with the rival blue. And even this is incorporated into Harvard's brawny heaven. For the season's culmination is to be a meeting with the champion gentlemen from New Haven. There is to be a little Yale-Harvard axis around which the minor sports world revolves, with all other colleges somewhere off in another universe...