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...Paris grumbling old Auguste Rodin took her as a pupil. To perfect her knowledge of anatomy she practiced dissection at the Royal College of Surgeons for three years. Recognition followed. Museums in France, Britain and the U. S. bought her work; she has been decorated by both France and Jugoslavia. To the general public perhaps best known works are the stone group at the entrance of London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...
Interrupted by Deputy Bracke, his one-time schoolmaster, the Premier squelched his old preceptor thus : "Remember I was your pupil ! You taught me the drama of Socrates in his prison...
...weeks dealing with the period before the Renaissance and into the Reformation, prints of the significant examples of art at this time are to be circulated among the members of the class. These will be given out with a book dealing on the artistic life of the century. The pupil will receive with the prints a short sheet of explanation which will not attempt to tell specific things about the individual pictures, but will give a general idea of art and the times. Cram pointed out that history at this time was more a history of the revival...
...system of the past many students were either completely bored or unable to cope with the curriculum. Today such students have a variety of interests offered to them, so that school is less of a grind and more in accord with the teaching ideal of Montaigne--to inspire the pupil rather than to drive...
...taken in mountainlands high above Nice and the natives are still talking about the rueful old man who rode about on a ribby white horse which he insisted on flitting each day. In his U. S. concerts Chaliapin will sing three songs written for his cinema by Jacques Ibert, pupil of Maurice Ravel...