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...noble river, whose beautiful and numerous islands are clothed with gigantic trees; whose high and undulating shore on the one hand is ornamented with thriving villages, and on the other spreads out an extensive alluvial, rich in all the gifts of Ceres, or rises abruptly from the river a mural escarpment of carboniferous limestone, which reflects its blue and sombre aspect in the crystal waters at its base. Like many other spots, however, remarkable for their loveliness, the subtle messengers of death have chosen it for their abode, infusing the poison of their breath into the serenity of autumn, when...
...heads of colleges) put their heads together and cruelly crushed to death the old Delegacy for the Extension of Teaching. By a complex arrangement the Hebdomadal Council, Convocation and Congregation (executive and legislative bodies of the University) will appoint 14 members who will be styled the Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies ?that is, academic instruction of adults carried on at various places outside of Oxford...
...Paris." Of the 15 applicants the jury retained 3 for further consideration-A. Clemens Finley, Jr., T. C. Richards, both students of the National Academy of Design (Manhattan) and M. J. Mueller, of the Yale University School of Fine Arts. These three were given four weeks to submit a mural on the subject Spring. Although his painting was not completed, the jury (composed of E. H. Blashfield, F. C. Jones, Douglas Volk, Eugene Savage and Russell Cowles) voted for Finley because of the soundness of his composition. He will sail shortly for Rome. "Magic Needle...
Preparations were begun yesterday at the Widener Library for the cutting of an inscription in the panel over the doorway between the Sargent mural paintings. The inscription was originally planned in connection with the paintings, but its cutting was delayed at the time of their installation last fall. The work started yesterday will not be completed until after Commencement...
...French archeologists discovered at Saliyeh in Syria a buried Greek city founded just after the death of Alexander the Great and abandoned in 273 A. D. It contained a parchment written in 189 B. C.,"said to be the oldest Greek manuscript extant," and important mural paintings...