Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discouraged with his first portraits, he turned to mural decoration "because there seemed to be a call for that sort of thing." Shortly thereafter he got a divorce, and, exhilarated, turned out an amazing series of panels and screens, one of which, showing a horde of giraffes nibbling the tender branches of birch trees, now stands in the Luxembourg Museum...
...construction of most women's colleges ever since their founding. Here at Radcliffe, the class has never been the unit, except for certain extracurricular activities. Freshmen and seniors share terrace steps from the opening days of college, and loyalty is felt to one's dormitory, in intra-mural contests. The house-mistresses are quite frequently graduate students, while at colleges such as Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke, one or several members of the faculty will be in residence at the dormitories. A common dining-room is an integral part of each hall...
...social contact with faculty members, thereby lessening that breach between the two groups which is still widely decried by critics of our educational system. Contacts between upperclassmen and underclassmen will also be facilitated. Incidentally, the new system will make possible a shift of emphasis from intercollegiate athletics to intra-mural sport...
...regard to point (2): if it is true that intercollegiate competition is the chief impetus to athletics, then the athletics-for-all policy, Harvard's extensive intra-mural program, and President Lowell's theory of the Greek as opposed to the Roman ideal of athletic competition may all just as well be relegated to the scrap basket. Furthermore the figures on the number of men engaged in intercollegiate sports and those engaged in frankly intramural competition are so convincing on this point that it need scarcely be considered further. In dealing with the class of men to whom only extra...
...summit of which they built a cairn as a record of their presence. To this unnamed summit the name of "Mount Harvard" was joyously though unofficially attached by the members of the climbing party. In the meantime another group ascended Mumm Peak and looked down from its summit upon Mural Glacier, one of the finest of the glaciers in that part of the mountains...