Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...anything from a French general to a Mexican rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault is in the student's own background. All these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think of methods of teaching which shelve the present for the past, and of professors who imagine they are teaching history when four-fifths of their students do not know whether Winston Churchill or von Bethmann-Hollweg...
...younger in the full length portrait now at the Fogg than in the famous equestrian Prado picture, the likeness between the two is striking. In the picture under discussion, the pose and expression are dignified and impressive. The massive black robed figure stands out against a perfectly painted gray background. The characteristic left hand rests on the hilt of the sword and the right grasps a table covered with red velvet. The gold chain...
...course, is necessary for the engineer, since modern engineering requires him to appear before commissions, boards, and public bodies to present his material in non-technical form, and in a limited time. But in addition to the practical advantage of the training the aim is to give a liberal background to a specialized field which is ordinarily pursued in a narrow and technical...
...master, Tintoretto, has just been placed on exhibition, as a loan, in the gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The picture, the subject of which is "Diana," comes close to the series of smaller mythological subjects, each with a few figures arranged in a single plane against a landscape background, the best known of which form the decoration of one of the rooms in the Ducal Palace in Venice. Like them, the picture at the Fogg Museum, although extremely simple in its expression, is masterly in design, and it exhibits the extraordinary skill in direct handling, which makes Tintoretto perhaps...
When the "Marseillaise" is sung at the game this afternoon, it is planned to have certain men wave white handkerchiefs during the singing so that the effect will be that of a white "H" on a crimson background. The right-hand upright of the "H" will be formed by those men sitting in section 32, rows O to R inclusive, W to DD inclusive, II and JJ, seats 9, 10, 11, 12; and rows S to V inclusive, EE to HH inclusive, seats 6, 7, 8, 9. The left-hand upright will be formed by men sitting in section...