Word: foreground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several engravings present College scenes preceding those of Fisher while one stained and yellowed "plan of Cambridge" antedates the founding of Harvard. Of these early prints of the Colleges at Cambridge, the Massachusetts one is of particular interest in that there is represented in the foreground what is evidently a cricket match, a sign of the English influence which played so important a role during the formative period of the University. An engraving of a "birdseye view of Harvard. America's first and greatest University" gives an accurate and detailed panorama of the Yard-which summarizes the early period...
...Bambi, which was deer life poeticized, all the birds & beasts of the forest-and finally even the trees- converse freely together in a rather flat idiom, and the majority eat each other with relish and frequency. That, with the doings of sundry hunters, forms the background, foreground and action of the story...
...unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...
When, last fall, the Botanical Gardens withered in a state of financial delinquency, a problem arose which apparently called for all the rare tact and ingenuity which the combined forces of sundry garden clubs and a Harvard administration could muster to the foreground. The situation was attacked will such a display of apprehension and diffuse polemics that it assumed all the seriousness of a three act mystery play to undergraduates uninitiated in the science and verbiage of horticulture...
...foreground was a large cylinder, its sides removed, revealing a substantial piston rod about five inches in diameter. Just beyond was a large square hole in the floor, affording a glance down to the gloomy interior of the plant through a maze of pipes...