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...color, form, pattern, and that these can be treated in such a way as to give us pretty paint surfaces, harmonious and sparkling color and agreeable design, things which, hung on the walls of our houses or apartments, may add much to the pleasure of our life. The painter therefor treats his subjects as so much material or motive to be made into a pleasant arrangement, a pretty commentary on the beauty of things. Shadows, for example, are no longer a mere means for the expression of the likeness of form or even of light effects, but are motives...
...made up from the income of the request of Governor James Bowdoin who graduated from the University in 1745 and increased by G. S. Bowdoin. It offers nine prizes, five of these being for undergraduates who do not hold an academic degree or have not fulfilled the requirements therefor, and also for other candidates of A. B. or S. B. in the University. The first prizes for this group is $250. There are two second prizes of $100 each. The essay may be on any topic subject to the approval of Professor Maynadier...
...take a position in the next campaign upon the question of near-modification of the Volstead act. . . . "Then we come to the other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people. . . . "In my opinion, it would rot out the pillars of government inside of half a century. It contains every evil and none of the virtues of Prohibition. It would be bureaucracy and bureaucracy-drunk...
...candidate should be accepted whose program does not include a year of university study of the history of art in an American university. In the case of candidates who have already had this minimum of university training, or whose experience, as teacher, for example, presupposes a reasonable equivalent therefor, the regional committees and committee on selection will consider programs according to their fitness for the individual applicant...
...lesser degree by the senior council, the powers of which have fluctuated, without ever being very clearly defined, between the purely advisory and the actually administrative. The fluctuation has followed naturally from the changing strength of character in successive classes. Thus, in 1924 the council was so unrepresentative and therefore weak that it was obliged to resign. Last week, a council, full of conviction and therefor strong, resigned by its own choice to force the whole issue of Princeton self-government...