Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn without warning that our predecessors played boyish pranks, dodged an education, and generally mistreated the glorious manhood of sideburns. Rumours of such things had previously reached our ears, but somehow we had failed to connect them officially with these portrait ancestors. And now we do not know whether to thank the Dean for his compliment, or to deplore his shattering of our beliefs. Incidentally, to return a Roland for an Oliver, the wisdom of the whole disclosure might be questioned; for, having no longer the respect of the shades to hold us down, to what lengths of frivolity might...
...loan collection of portraits, mostly framed photographs of famous professors of the University, who formerly taught either at Radcliffe or at the old "annex", will be displayed over the fireplace in the Radcliffe shop. In the collection will be found pictures of the notable characters of the old Philosophy Department, William James, Josish Royce, Professor George Herbert Palmer, George Santayana, the two great classicists, Greenough and Goodwin, as well as the late Professor Barrette Wendell. Besides these, a portrait of President Emeritus Eliot, who has helped Radcliffe greatly, is included in the collection...
...School of Architecture has on exhibition in the Hall of Casts, Robinson Hall, three portrait reliefs in bronze by Wheeler Williams 3S.A., of Chicago, III. The course in the School requires practice in clay modelling of architectural ornament and some figure work, but these portraits are carried farther than such work ordinarily is required...
Although not a contemporary portrait of Dante, it antedates most of the ideal pictures of the great poet, and is especially pleasing in color an composition...
...apparently about to be crowned by a small winged genius. The figure on the right, standing three-quarters towards the front, wears a blue gown with red cuffs, red shoes, and a red hood. On his head, over the hood, is a laurel wreath. The portrait has a reddish gold background...