Word: kans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret weapons of the fierce T'ang cavalry were their powerful Bactrian steeds, by legend so mettlesome that they literally sweated blood. The artist who most magnificently portrayed them was the painter Han Kan. Summoned to court by T'ang Emperor Ming Huang, Han was ordered to study the paintings of one of the court painters, took the "Illustrious Sovereign" aback by replying: "My masters are all in Your Majesty's stables." The results of Han's study of the Emperor's 40,000 horses can be seen in his Cowherd (opposite), a painting that...
Grants for graduate study abroad have been awarded to Robert W. Scrivner '57 of Kirkland House and Topeka, Kan., Stephen A. Aaron '57 of Lowell House and New York City, Eric W. Kurtz '57 of Adams House and Oberlin, Ohio; and Peter N. Stearns '57 of Eliot House and Urbana...
...Cushman '58, of Kirkland House and New York City; Daniel H. Garrison '59, of Kirkland House and Mason, Mich.; Robert Jordan '58, of Eliot House and New York City; Thomas Lumbard '58, of Kirkland House and New York City; Phillip McCoy '59, of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kan.; Peter Salisbury '58, of Adams House and Dearborn, Mich.; William S. Talbot '59, of Kirkland House and Williamstown; John Washburn '59, of Lowell House and Tryon, N.C.; and Elisabeth Nelson '58, of Saville House and Saugus...
...Class of 1956 chose Cliff F. Thompson of Lowell House and Fairway, Kan.; William M. Meigs of Adams House and North Braddock, Pa.; and Arthur G. Siler of Winthrop House and Orinda, Calif., as first, second, and third marshals in a close election yesterday. Albert B. Levin of Kirkland House and East Orange, N.J., was elected Class Committee member-at-large...
...first Japanese novels ever set in the troubled here and unmitigated now, and it spurred the rising revolution in Japanese letters. As the picture tells it, the story is well calculated to soak as many crying towels as any other late Victorian romance. Miya (Fujiko Yamamoto) and Kan-ichi (Jun Negami), an orphan, grow up together in her father's house, fall in love, and are properly betrothed. A rich young man appears and speaks for Miya's hand. Her parents, who later say that they "must have been possessed by a golden demon," urge her to break...