Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-03-05
.NERSEAS LECTURER
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gundy will be the topic OF a lee
,,,o to he given Wednesday evening,
u.rcb 10. at s p. IN. in the college
.,aitorium by dorado Taft. He has
4 had experience in France and is
Il ssnecially interested in the dough-
+ Aov from "oyer there" There will
4 section of the auditorium re-
soyved for the members of the May
.ard Price post of the American Le-
yon and the cadet corps has also
Aeen asked to attend in body.
lrA Taft is sculptor of power and
esnius. one of the foremost con-
5 ,pmnoraries and when not chiseling
f marble he is lecturing on art. Be-
sides his fame as sculptor and his
influence as lecturer, he writes
brilliantly and is a teacher of great
influence on the students at his alma
mater. the University of Illinois,
where he is now professor of art.
Active in ChicaRO's Art Work
L He first won fame at the World j
Columbia exposition when he dec
grated the Horticultural building
Win the Flowers Sleeping and
AEskening." The Art Institute of
Chicago then commissioned him to
design memorial for the celebra-
ton Of the hundred years peace
among English speaking peoples.
This is an important event in art his
tory and marks the beginning of one
Of the greatest civic projects for
qualification ever undertaken.
Mr. Taft is nverting a mile of
South Side Chicago parkway into a
midway of lawn, trees, and sculp-
lure such as has never been ap-
preached except in the temporary
structures shown at the Worlds fair.
here he erected pageant of marble
nsures 10 feet high passing in re-
new before the colossal 2O-foot sta
Tue Oh Time. The three bridges of
falth, Art, and Science, with three
hundred statues of the famous men
sno have been eminent in these three
PAINS OF knowledge, and fountain
Npictlng the evolution of man since
as creation complete the undertake
ls' This is a work of heroic sculp-
'are and is different from anything
% has ever modelled before.
Novel Colony of Students
is Mr.. Taft who has preserved
WI iaVorite Leather Stocking" hero
W Us and concentrated the Amer
"'h indian by placing Black Hawk
sa'u upon that rocky point of Ea-
sss Nest, where he will forever over
WIN the valley This statue is sc
~'' nlgh and stands upon the high
: punt OF Rock river in nearly the
sue spot where the famous old In.
0hce stood and swept the valley
va MS Keen glance. Unlike al
modern colossal statues this
~ Oh concrete. 1t weighs over
So IONS and is solid except for a
~ !" SeVen-foot shaft that allows an
!, ''er TO ascend and view the val.
!. rum the small window at the
! ana iatt is also head of a new
=, ei school based on the schools
~. 1raAiteles and Phidias. In Hyde
dom. onicago, little group of stu.
no.s, Is working and living in an at.
sneon Oh enthusiasm, Guided and
nv "sed by his genius. This col.
I'M. as remarkable as Green WITCH
ter = VI the famous Latin Quar-.
BY ~ ans An old stable donated
Year. University of Chicago a few
Which $50 is the nucleus around
The s,.s Ae studios have grown and
tAron~S en's are enabled to live there
sidiDs :, MT Taft's generosity in di.
The A., zen thousand dollars that
year - institute is paying him each
the next five years, into