Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fourteen U. S. universities must now find space to hang 100 pictures apiece. The French donors frankly admit a shrewd purpose behind the gift. They are alarmed by growing competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered...
...Victory in the left panel and the coming of the Americans to Europe on the right. Happily, Mr. Sargent made no attempt at historical rendering and treated his scheme broadly from the decorative point of view. In the panel of the Coming of the Americans he has filled the space with a mighty column of American youths in uniform, slashing the composition boldly from right to left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries an infant on her left arm and stretches...
...public has the college man all wrong. We, his teachers, know him better. I have been glad, also, to see that in all the letters disagreeing with me--agreements and disagreements are running about 50-50, which shows that I opened up a real problem and not a mere space filler--only one of the letters to date has been abusive. The rest have been beautifully courteous and reasonable...
Once again Harvard news and Harvard music will be sent across the space which separates Commander Byrd's expedition from the United States, according to the following despatch received by the CRIMSON late last evening...
...difficulties of the small boy have been increasing every year. The growth of towns has decreased his play space but on the other hand the thickening craffic has given many ingenious little fellows a new game, that of spotting the makes of automobiles at great distances. Of late years however the imitative impulse on the part of the nation's body designers has reduced the sport to the most minute sort of scholasticism, and painstaking detail work is necessary in order to tell the newer makes apart at a thousand yards...