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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following Sophomores have been nominated for the Adams House Committee: Thomas H. Edmands, Robert B. Graves, Lewis Iselin, Richard B. Johnson, Henry V. Poor, John B. Rowland. Elections will be held to select two of these during the week ending November...
Much more popular awards were the second and third prizes to U. S. Artists John Steuart Curry and Henry Varnum Poor. Chunky, corn-fed John Steuart Curry is Kansas' gift to the arts (TIME, April 10). Growing yearly in reputation and ability, Painter Curry's solid, exciting canvases of life on the prairies have been widely shown, generously bought by all but Kansans. "Tornado," the canvas that won him $1,000 last week, shows a Kansas family diving for a storm cellar as a dusty horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing...
...from his best work is Henry Varnum Poor's canvas, "March Sun" showing two girls and a towheaded child drowsing round a table in the bright light of a window, yet in its drawing and color it shows how far Artist Poor has advanced since the time several years ago when he gave up painting, as he thought for good, to retire to the country, build his own home, and mold, fire and glaze tiles, vases and urns that won him the reputation of the country's greatest potter. Richer Poor canvases were on view...
...H.A.A. to try the proposed plan and experiment with it. Consequently, next fall a lower price minimum should be established, in the hope of attracting a class of people for whom the present prices are too high. This plan seems feasible enough and in view of the poor sale of tickets this year it should at least be given a trial...
What have we done so far? Well we have been swaying a little to find our bearings. We have investigated the fraternity set-up in a series of articles, rapped the pyramiding of many large campus positions--upon a few good men, punctured poor sports-writing, listed many local rackets, exhaustively investigated with questionnaires and statistics the alarming off-campus movement of student roomers, examined the financial structure of the publications, gathered information and formulated a platform on Dartmouth drinking after repeal, and sponsored a vigorous scrap over the worth and meaning of Orosco's famous murals now being painted...