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...three faculty sponsors are Alfred S. Coolidge, lecturer on Chemistry, Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, and Caleb A. Smith, instructor in Economics...
...Died. Caleb Frank Gates, 88, onetime missionary, longtime (1903-32) progressive president of famed Robert (American) College in Istanbul, father of Uni versity of Denver Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr. ; in Denver...
DeVoto's thesis is that U.S. art was all right so long as it concentrated on illustrating "the native life." Recently rediscovered genre and landscape painters like William Mount, George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Cole were fine, DeVoto thinks. But after the Civil War, he argues, a new class of industrial millionaires took to raiding European art and completely ruined the U.S. taste for esthetic home cooking...
...Civil War, largest section of the show, included less heroic action, simpler scenes of soldier life. There were Civil War paintings by William Morris Hunt, Eastman Johnson, George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Nast, Winslow Homer. Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty showed Negro slaves galloping to sanctuary in the Union lines. Of A Ride, Painter Johnson wrote: "A veritable incident . . . seen by myself at Centreville, on the morning of McClellan's advance." Most of the Civil War pictures bore out a remark once made by Ulysses S. Grant to a contemporary war artist...
...Judges included Orval H. Mowrer associate professor of Education, Caleb A. Smith, instructor in Economics, and William A. Seiz of the English department...