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...other hand in the "Fountain of Trevi" we find tones that contrast and mingle and as a result create an atmospheric sensation. The cooler tones are employed on the figures of a fountain while the warm yellow and orange of the palazzo in the background are contrasted to the former with successful result...
...them makes a hero purposely; they make good football players who will help to win games. Too bright a hero steals most of the glory from his college; all of it from his coach. Though stars burn out quickly, the quieter light of coaches burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding H. Yost (Michigan), Howard H. Jones (Southern California), T. A, D. Jones (Yale...
...fights elsewhere. And Bayliss, onetime representative of the mad tribe, joins Elsa's revolt against it, settles down to work, scandal, pettiness, apparently compensated by love alone. Therefore the story is of Bayliss and Elsa, their happiness-not of the Carews who form its flaming red-&-yellow background...
Remember "Brown of Harvard"? It was one of the first of the modern college pictures and was an honest attempt to portray student life at a large university without the usual attendant hokum. Harvard itself formed the background for much of the picture. Of course the problem of proper dress cropped up immediately. Jack Conway, the director, solved it by sending to Brooks Brothers of New York for appropriate clothes for his principles. In addition he used as a guide various snapshots taken in and about New Haven. Men's Wear. Cicago Apparel Gazette...
...surveys what he considers the present undergraduate body--a group of carefree young men concerned primarily with extra-curricular activities and the incidental culture which may be acquired thereby, and gives it his blessing. Since he believes the incoming tides of students lack this incidental culture in the background of their homes and schools, it is better for them to learn it at college than to bother themselves with ,daf ole davil Study...