Word: themes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remembered picture of childhood in Brussels, full of detail yet unified and effective. Of the stories, Mr. Plummer's "Full o' the Moon" catches the spirit of Irish legend, though the effort at Irish idiom is a trifle apparent; and Mr. Grant Code's "The Smile" places an old theme in an up-to-date Central American setting with considerable success. The articles on topics of the day begin with Mr. J. S. Watson's "Art and Artificiality," a not quite articulate protest against the "Safety First" temperament. Mr. McComb in his paper "Of Individuality" deals with an allied subject...
...theme is a typical Galsworthy one--"let the strong pity the weak." We have seen it in "The Fugitive" and less clearly, in "The Pigeon." William Falder, a junior law clerk, forges a check to obtain money with which to run off with the woman he loves, who is married to a brute of a husband. His deed is discovered and he is summoned before the court, tried, sentenced, and imprisoned. After three years he is freed again and hunts for a job, followed everywhere by the stigma of his prison term. He finds Ruth Honeywill, the woman he loves...
...Samuel A. Hopkins will speak in the Trephy Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The general theme of his address will be the subject of hygiene and its particular application to the relation of the mouth and of sound teeth to health. In the course of his talk, he will touch upon the matter of improving mouth conditions among children, mentioning what has already been accomplished in this line. The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...unfortunately true that the same theme is frequently harped upon in "class reunion" literature, and even occasionally in that of the meetings of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...shown at the Fogg Art Museum. Two of these are likely to be temporary loans only, while the third, a Florentine so-called Cassone panel, is to be added to the permanent collection of the Museum. This picture represents, in fine composition and typically brilliant color, a favorite mythological theme, "The Judgment of Paris." It was recently reproduced in "Arts and Decoration," in an article by Professor Frank Mather of Princeton University. It was also published by Professor Schubring in his work on panels of this general character, and is attributed by him to the so-called "Paris master...