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...generation of U. S. citizens a 93-year-old art scandal that eventually cost the U. S. Government $35,000. In 1832 architects, hurrying to complete the Capitol after its burning by the British in 1814, decided that nothing would be more fitting for the central rotunda than a heroic statue of the Father of His Country. For this they got Congress to vote $5,000, and commissioned U. S. Sculptor Horatio Greenough to carve the figure. Sculptor Greenough promptly went off to the soft Tuscan air of Florence, Italy, where he rented a large studio, enlarged it further, secured...
...cost the Government $5,000 more to get the statue from the Washington Navy Yard to the Capitol rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...
...unusual as Brasher's bird pictures will be the museum Connecticut intends to build in the Berkshires' Kent State Park. It will be a round, three-story structure, capable of holding 2,500 persons at one time. Visitors will climb ramps from the first floor to a rotunda on the second. There the circular floor space will be divided into twelve pie-like segments. At the end of each segment, facing the rotunda, will be hung the twelve biggest and best Brashers, to be viewed by visitors without moving from the building's centre. The other Brasher...
...activities and concomitant social contact which is so important in first year college life if interpreted in the broadest sense, one has only to make a brief tour of the building. In past years in the Small Dining Room as distinguished from the Large Dining Room and the Rotunda, classes have had their French, German and Latin tables where men could converse during meals in the particular language in which they were interested. The Large Dining Room was the scene of last year's Freshman entertainment, Freshman Smoker and Jubilee. Piano recitals and motion picture shows were given...
...Connecticut Governor, who once refused a commission in Washington's army because a clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation of General Washington) in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol for which the Government paid him the generous sum of $32,000. Most striking in the gallery of early Americans was a dynamic Head of Lafayette by Inventor-Painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse...