Word: oils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...neutrality" league also claims that it and the R. O. T. C. should work together. It does not take into account that oil and water will not mix, and that the spirit prompting the Union is the direct antithesis of that prompting...
...sport that endures through the year is fires. Nowhere north of Halifax on the best authority of seasoned travelers, do such glorious fires take place as in Cambridge, In the dark of the night or the glare of the morn, while the midnight oil is theoretically burning, the deep bell of the fire alarm sounds. And forth from the Yard and the Gold Coast, from Widener and Phillips Brooks, from every shanty, dormitory or palace between Persis smith and Perkins, the rejoicing students rush...
...defenders of the wall, meanwhile, amused themselves by dropping heavy stones on the beams of the lean-to shelter or by pouring down boiling oil...
Through the generosity of Edward D. Bettens '73 the Fogg Art Museum has acquired an exceptionally fine landscape in oil by John Singer Sargent. It represents Lake O'Hara in British Columbia, with the mountains rising behind it. The picture is a memorial to Mr. Bettens' mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. The museum has also acquired as a gift from a group of people, one of the water colors which Mr. Sargent painted at the same time near Lake O'Hara...
...Sargent, who is one of the greatest of living painters, is now in Boston overseeing the placing of his large new decorative religious paintings in the Boston Public Library. He spent last summer in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where he painted two large landscapes in oil, one being the recent gift to the Fogg, Museum, the other having just been added to Mrs. John L. Gardner's collection at Fenway Court. The Alumni Bulletin comments as follows upon this recent gift...