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...white streamers, which will float over one thousand multi-colored balloons, the members of the Class of 1935 will celebrate the Freshman Jubilee this evening in the new setting provided by the Freshman Union. The strains of Jack Marshard's twenty-piece orchestra will supplement the carnival background of what promises to be a more colorful jubilee than any held in the small area provided by Smith Halls...
...Iron Stag era grouped round a little ornamental fountain on a croquet lawn. The models this time have all their clothes on. The painting has considerably more humor than most Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics found it still a little Savage. To those who saw the work of other candidates from other schools there could be no suggestion that the jury (Artists Barry Faulkner, Allyn Cox, Ezra Winter, James Monroe Hewlett, Abram Poole, Gari Melchers) was biased in its decision. The Yale School...
There is no reason to believe that an engineer can go through life any more without a cultural background than a lawyer, doctor, or other professional man. If a man wishes to be an engineer, let him go through college, concentrating in engineering sciences, and taking his history, economics, languages, and so on. Then if at the end of these four years he still wishes to be an engineer, let him work for one or two specialized years in his particular field, in the Engineering School...
...drama of the present day is forcibly demonstrated by the work of Mr. Eugene O'Neill. The policy of the Classical Club in staging the ancient plays may have this same effect, and at the same time should stimulate interest in the classics, which, though they once formed the background of all learning, have been chosen by only nine members of the class of 1935 as a field of concentration...
...vehicle selected for the restricted abilities of Richard Barthelmess. Since the atmosphere is melodrama and the theme is medicine, where else can such icy voiced and tendril fingered experts exist as those of Austria; so Bathelmess becomes Muller, and Richard, Karl. And thus before a background of beer steins, rambling stucco farmhouses, operating rooms and music boxes, Karl Muller develops as the boy who loves the soil but is forced to become a surgeon. Complication after complication is thrown in to keep awake a sleepy audience, but the chief attraction is better than average photography, which takes advantage of every...