Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there the barking dog is muzzled; for without a center or paid manager to organize teams, practices, and games the dormitories are helpless. Yet now that their right to belong in the intra-mural system has been recognized, it should be possible to go the whole hog and give them a center--(a bulletin board in the Athletic Building would suffice)--manager, and permission to participate in other House sports. And governed by the existing rules, which forbid men on probation to play on winning House teams against Yale, there would not exist the disparity of strength manifested...
Only one living artist has deliberately matched his art against the superhuman mayhem of air bombing. Picasso did it for the Spanish Government building at last year's Paris Exposition with a 22-ft. by 10-ft. mural, Guernica, which nobody enjoyed and nobody forgot. Last month this painting and 67 auxiliary sketches were exhibited at London's New Burlington Galleries, quickly became the sensation of the opening season...
Kirkland was dropped out of the House football lead by a giant-killing crowd of basketball players from Adams who slew the Deacons 7-6 by putting on the finest aerial attack ever seen in intra-mural football. The once-beaten, once tied 'Coasters completed pass after pass against a helpless Kirkland defense. Another surprise result, dimmed by the Deacon upset, was Lowell's last-ditch win over Eliot...
...fall touch ball season on October 7, Samborski stressed the importance of securing Freshman managers from each dormitory to see that each team is well represented. A Student Council committee under Douglas Mercer '40 is in charge of selecting these managerships, which are regarded by the Intra-mural department as excellent training for House secretaryships...
Swarthy Painter Thomas Hart Benton, famed for his Missouri murals, attacked New York City's examination for high-school teachers of fine arts, declaring the mural problem would have stumped him, complained "It is impossible to perform in the time limit allowed. As a matter of fact, it is impossible of performance no matter what the time limit...