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...Russell Olsen's "Mr. Eliot and the Jesuits" alone of the essays in this number bears some slight trace of that preciousness so carefully cultivated in certain Harvard circles of the 1920's. He makes the neat point that Mr. Eliot's flight to the Church has resemblances with Mr. Malcolm Cowley's flight to Communism; but on the whole his epigrams fail to hang together...
Russell T. Olsen '35, writers an article "Mr. Eliot and the Jesuits" in a replay to T. S. Eliot's recent article in the Advocate...
...Fraad, who was a guard on the Bruin club of two years ago, will hold down one tackle berth and either Gus Olsen or Dick Batchelder will play the other tackle...
Most submarine painters squint at the ocean's bed through glass-bottomed buckets or make their sketches and paintings on dry land after exploring in diving suits. But not Chris Emile Olsen. In a one-piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water. A 65-pound metal helmet is placed over his head and shoulders, attached to an air pump on board ship. He goes down 20 to 35 ft., takes with him a Monel steel tripod, easel, and palette spread with regular oil colors. He paints on 8 by 10 in. glass...
...first Chris Olsen experienced difficulties. The density of the water destroyed perspective. He would often miss his canvas altogether. When he dropped brushes, they would float to the surface. Now he has mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills, even in the warm Bahaman waters where he paints, he stays down only 20 minutes at a stretch, makes four or five trips a day. Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work...