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...decoration in public and private buildings. It reached its apex in Rubens (1577-1640), and since then no fundamental advances have been made - merely improvements in method, conquests of technical problems, emotionally impotent. To the great masters of the Renaissance, says Wright, color was incidental-laid on after the design was structurally complete. Their works are as intelligible in black and white reproductions as in the original...
...American University Union. The University office has announced the appointment of four new professors: Professor Edward Raymond Bossange, late of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh who will replace the late Professor Howard Crosby Butler as head of the School of Architecture; Professor Frank Eidman, to be associate professor of machine design and industrial practice; Professor F. A. Heacock, to be professor of graphics and engineering drawing; and Professor Richard Montgomery Field, to be assistant professor of geology...
...dollar is a dollar, yet a dollar does not necessarily resemble a dollar. We have in this country, at the present time, six different kinds of paper currency with various designs. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon last week approved designs for new issues of paper currency, which will give three of the six kinds of currency a uniform type of design...
...object of making denominations uniform is to make detection of counterfeits and raised notes easier. The Treasury is considering discontinuing the $2 denomination because of its unpopularity but for the present will continue the issue of that denomination in the current design of Greenbacks and Silver Certificates...
...Curtiss ship is a tiny plane, streamlined to the last degree, with an engine which weighs less than 700 pounds, yet turns up 475 horsepower. The racer represents the last word in airplane design and embodies a wonderful wing, curved on the under as well as on the upper side, so as to offer the very least possible resistance to speed...