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...article, written by Donald McD. D. Thurber '40, is based on an exhaustive questionnaire distributed to all Seniors and answered by 619 members of the Class of 1940. Sandwiched in among questions about the political views and family background of Seniors were two questions which dealt with sex, but the answers to these will not appear in the Album...
Pottinger's subject will be "Making the Bay Psalm Book," while Miller, whose "New England Mind in the Seventeenth Century" was published recently, will speak on "The Religious Background of the Bay Psalm Book...
Second prize has ben given to Julian 10. Agoos '40, whose picture of "Column," a young boy, is notable for its clarity and realism. "Boulder Dam," showing the white concrete contrasted with the rugged mountains in the background, has won third prize for John B. Breed...
...their biography is the most compact and exact thus far (with 130 pages of notes which, as usual in scholarly biographies, are frequently more interesting than the text). And they display real imaginativeness in portraying Washington as a great, human central figure against his remote 18th-Century background...
Chief among those whom I offended by describing their proficiency as merely "more than adequate" is John Cumming '41. Certain weakening elements in his large "Oil," such as, an enigmatic source of light despite the presence of a large window in the background, and a failure to give a proper feeling of weight to his seated figures, are reduced to insignificance in view of the comprehensive power of organization with which the entire canvas is handled. The painting is alive; the colors are healthy; and whatever distortion of perspective exists contributes to the vibrancy of the entire piece by supplementing...