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...oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics relating to the fine arts of the United States." Said Forbes Watson, able critic of The New York World: "Since the avowed object of the bill in general is to advance taste 'in America, and since the 'arts of design' constitute only a fraction of the arts, why should Governmental supervision go only half way? Let us have a Department of Poetry, directed by a $12,000 Secretary of Poetry and assisted by an $8,000 Assistant Secretary of Poetry. Let the United States Government add also a Department...
Henry Bacon was well known as a designer of settings for sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel C. French. Among his many successes are the memorial to James McNeill Whistler in the West Point Library and the Marcus Alonzo Hanna monument at Cleveland. But his crowning achievement was the memorial to Lincoln. Here his profound knowledge of Greek architecture, coupled with his skill in adapting classic design to modern needs, produced possibly the most dignified piece of architecture in the country. Mr. Bacon was selected by the Fine Arts Commission in 1911 to design this important work...
...Junior Dance Committee announced yesterday that, as a result of the recent, competition, the work of Herman Gipstein '25, of Hartford, Conn., has been selected as the design for the dance program. By winning the competition, Gipstein is appointed member of the dance committee. Walter Harrington Kilham, Jr., '26 of Boston, received the second prize...
...cooperation which will be needed from manufacturers to keep pace with the technical advances of warfare was amplified by one Colonel Walsh of the Ordnance Department. He described some of the outstanding improvements in military equipment which have taken place since the War: "Our own Ordnance Department has designed a 75-millimetre gun with twice the range of the French Soixante-Quinze used in 1918. The redesigned 155-millimetre gun outranges the French C. P. F. by nearly five miles, the new 4.7 gun outranges our own pre-War design two and a half times and fires a heavy projectile...
Harvard men interested in aviation have been invited to attend the smoker this evening at 8 o'clock at M. I. T. of the Aeronautical Engineering Society. The design, construction, and operation of the "Shenandoah" will be described by Mr. C. P. Burgess, who was associated with its design and was aboard the huge "lighter-than-air" craft during its recent runaway flight...