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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field of the decorative arts, too often neglected, the material is distinguished. Both the ceramics and the textiles of Raoul Dufy deserve special notice. The ingenious miniature reproductions in pottery of the Moorish Gardens at Granada, and the lively designs of his fabrics, attest to the versatility of this talented artist. Brilliant workmanship marks a great variety of objects on display, such as cigarette cases, book-covers, silver, jewelry and glassware...
...preamble the following recital that "the state of every King consists more assuredly in the love of the subjects toward their prince than in the dread of laws made with vigorous pains: and that laws made for the preservation of the commonwealth without great penalties, are more often obeyed and kept than laws made with extreme punishment...
Dramatics at Harvard in recent years have been often characterized by an ambitious tinge of the extravaganza. A purely creative side of the theatre has perhaps been overlooked as the undergraduates brought to Cambridge work from afar in which the emphasis was decidedly on the appeal and glitter of exotic pageantry. The Dramatic Club apparently chose to focus its attention on a finished performance with all the attendant splendor of a circus parade, rather than spend the greater part of its efforts on original experimentation. The entertainment offered has been its own reward. The Club's last few performances without...
That the present penal system is not reducing crime is a thought often expressed. Clarance Darrow in recent years has achieved considerable celebrity for his advocacy of the treatment of the individual criminal as a cure for the cause of crime. Despite the unfortunate angles of many of his cases and the adverse public opinion regarding them, it would seem that some such treatment is necessary to get at the root of the trouble. In seeking for the practical details to work out this idea the Institute offers excellent hope for some plan for improvement of present conditions...
...more valuable than hurried acquaintance with a great many sharp unrelated facts. The literature of super reporting from time to time can rise to a virtuosity that gives it all the effect of creative lyricism. But it takes a real genius such as Balzae to accomplish this, and more often a writer falls into sterile description...