Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a much smaller number than at the height of the season, four shells have been practicing consistently. "If they can develop last year's spirit and enthusiasm, this Freshman group should amount to something," commented the usually non-committal Love...
...Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment...
...only an illustrator but a writer of children's books, Howard Pyle was followed in both fields by his accomplished sister Katharine, who still "lives in Wilmington. Best known Pyle pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...
...under a policy calculated in theory to strike a careful balance between research and teaching, but which in practice has tended to emphasize research. The Faculty idea that pure intellectual training and research should be the most important elements in the making of teachers shows to what degree the spirit of research has permeated University minds and out-balanced that of teaching. The weakness of the School in this respect appears one particular proof that the University is flying the wrong flag of educational emphasis...
...getting warm. Mervin Jules, 25, does not yet wear the mantle of Daumier (see col. 3), but among his 20 tempera paintings and score of gouaches (opaque water colors) there were several which allowed spectators not only to see poverty but to see into it. Several others showed a spirit and skill at caricature which located Jules below but in line with Rivera, Orozco, Grosz and other effective satirists of social horrors...