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Tricky Decoration. The principles of camouflage have often been traced, by theorists, back to protective coloration by which nature conceals animals. But much of today's camouflage finds a more apt ancestry in the Renaissance art of trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") with which tricky 16th-Century artists painted in nonexistent bookcases, windows, benches and tables so naturally that they looked like the real thing. Since modern rear-area camouflage produces many of its disguises with dummy structures and elaborately built alterations rather than with paint, camouflage has become as much the province of engineers...
Yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre M. Rene Millet delivered the first of the series of Hyde lectures. His subject was "Coup d'Oeil sur l'Histoire de la Mediterranee. L'Unite du Monde Antique." Professor William James introduced the speaker...
...Rene Millet will give the first of the series of Hyde lectures, under the auspices of the Cercle Francais, this afternoon in Sanders Theatre at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Coup d'Oeil sur l'Histoire de la Mediterranee. L'Unite du Monde Antique...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LACTURES. I. "Coup d'oeil sur Phistoire de is Mediterranee. L'unite du monde antique," M. Rene Millet. Sanders Theatre, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket only till 4.25 P. M.; after that hour open to the public...
February 15-"Coup d'oeil sur I'phistoire de la Mediterrance. L'unite dumonde antique...