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...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...
Austin Scholarships to Lester M. Beattle of Northfield, Minn. (English); Howard F. Bigelow of Kalamazoo, Mich. (economics); Arthur R. Davis of Middlebury, Vt. (chemistry); Jose M. Hernandez of Norman, Okia, (Romance languages); Arthur R. Knipp 1G., of Baltimore (physics); Robert R. La Follette of Terra Haute, Ind. (history); William T. MacCreadie of Northfield, Vt. (mathematics); Charles M. McCurry of Georgetown, Ky. (English); Howard B. Poole of Boulder, Colo (Romance languages); and Ernest E. Stanford of Cleveland, Ohio (botany...
Austin Scholarships to Lester M. Beattle of Northfield, Minn. (English); Howard F. Bigelow of Kalamazoo, Mich. (economics); Arthur R. Davis of Middlebury, Vt. (chemistry); Jose M. Hernandez of Norman, Okia, (Romance languages); Arthur R. Knipp 1G., of Baltimore (physics); Robert R. La Follette of Terra Haute, Ind. (history); William T. MacCreadie of Northfield, Vt. (mathematics); Charles M. McCurry of Georgetown, Ky. (English); Howard B. Poole of Boulder, Colo (Romance languages); and Ernest E. Stanford of Cleveland, Ohio (botany...
...buildings are fireproof throughout with terra cotta floor construction and steel framework. The common rooms and dining rooms will be panelled in oak with quartered oak floors and large fireplaces. The wainscoting and doors throughout the buildings will also be of oak. In general architecture, the dormiories coincide well with the other University buildings. Sheley, Rutan and Coolidge, the architects, also built the new Harvard Club on Commonwealth avenue...
Spring is here! For a long time we have doubted the Monthly poets, but all uncertainty has fled before the latest announcement: "Straw hats will bloom on Saturday." Even the verdant green of the terra firma and the bingle of the bat on the ball are sometimes treacherous signs of the love-making season, but who can question the authority of the appearance of the hay lids? The weather man has promised a glorious day for the grass helmets on Saturday, and -- besides--the goals are hungry for that old brown derby...