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...collection of Japanese prints presented to the museum by Henry Osborne Taylor '78. The majority of them are by Shunsho and Hiroshige, the great print artists. Two of them, by Hiroshige, are especially worthy of note. They are long and thin, well adapted to the scenes they portray. The green and purple shading is some of the finest color works to be found in the Museum...
...will contain a variety of short spontaneous lyrics, and a long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...
...Dean Inge's writings there are passages which portray a dangerously uneducated man, by which I mean, of course, not the natural man who has never been to school, but a monster who has been elaborately uneducated at Eton, Cambridge, Oxford and in the Church of England...
...latest book Fannie Hurst undertakes a pretentious task and fails somewhat of doing it justice. "A President is Born", is an effort to portray the early life and development of a man who was to become President of the United States. David Schuyler, the character in question, is followed from birth to early manhood, and occasion is found to indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light...
Remember "Brown of Harvard"? It was one of the first of the modern college pictures and was an honest attempt to portray student life at a large university without the usual attendant hokum. Harvard itself formed the background for much of the picture. Of course the problem of proper dress cropped up immediately. Jack Conway, the director, solved it by sending to Brooks Brothers of New York for appropriate clothes for his principles. In addition he used as a guide various snapshots taken in and about New Haven. Men's Wear. Cicago Apparel Gazette...