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...Colonel Robert Thompson memorial trophy, which the winning college at the intercollegiate championship holds and which is a bronze replica of the "Little Iron Man," will be exhibited beginning today in Leavitt and Peirce's window. At the meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association after the tournament, Captain-elect Lane was chosen vice-president of that body for the 1923-24 season, and J. K. Watson '23, who was manager of this year's team, was appointed a member of the graduate committee to arrange for the next intercollegiate meeting...
...with the products of the new. Turgenieff and Tchekhov are to be superseded by new authors; and they, in aiming at first-group ranking, need only take as a model this line from a recent Russian poet: "I feel a great desire to spit at the moon through the window...
...with marvelous, sometimes brutal, truthfulness to actual life in 17th century Holland. In the panel recently discovered, which represents the marriage of Alexander the Great with Roxane, five sources of light are introduced- the greatest number ever observed in a single picture. Rays of evening sun from an invisible window to the left fall on Roxane and the court ladies. Daylight enters at a door and an open window above. Lamps glow dimly in the background. A sacrificial fire, tended by priests, flares duskily at the right. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), greatest of the Dutch School, was born...
...ROOM WITH A VIEW?E. M. Forster?Knopf ($2.50). Mr. Forster is irritated beyond measure by conventional humanity. But he keeps his temper and laughs good-humoredly from his window at the British Babbitts in Italy. The view from the room was over the Arno, and Florence?of the tourists?is the background for a good part of the book...
...fundamental principle of expressionism is the representation not of the appearance of a scene, but its meaning. A characteristic instance was the Fifth Avenue scene in Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape. Jewels were to the misplaced stoker only tinsel; so the shop window was filled not with gems, but tinsel. The wealthy churchgoers appeared to him automatons; so a squeaky procession of masked automatons marched across the stage...