Show 103 STUDENT LIFE latest style Tuxedo I should have much pre- ferred to sec him in his old “missionary” coat and lough cow hide hoots I suppose though his good Frau was responsible for his appear- all right Good-nig- Cordelia and her red hair are so is the postmaster’s daughter formal d ht old man” B F It JR ance When we finally seated ourselves at the table the good deacon arose and fervently thanked the Almighty for the food before us When “Amen” was said we “lit in” on the salad taste spread Never before did chicken so good IV c ate and ate of it and only stopannounced that ped because the host frankly there was no more of it The bread and butter reminded me of home and when a glass of and good rich milk was offered me I took it then asked for another one The good wholesome food tasted better than the delicacies of Dclmonieo or Tcnv Faust and when a dish of ice cream (made out of genuine cream too) was set before me I concluded that when I wanted attend good things to eat I should always one of the Dunlap parties Dick was doing full justice to the feast and when called upon to make a speech he declined the honor saying he was too hungry At last the apple cider was served and this time Dick drank a toast to the debutante and the country IIow I wish Dick’s set lasses in general could have seen him drinking that toast They would have been amused to see Richard Huntington a reputed swell lauding the charms of the country maidens This much for Dick he meant every word lie said When grim hunger was chased away we all returned to the room papered in red Here we sang and danced until completely tired out and when “Home Sweet Home” was sung Dick began to regret that there was such a song Heartily bidding one and all good night and wishing Cordelia many happy returns of the day Dick and I reluctantly set out for home Dick did not say much on the way he must have been involved in serious thought but finally when we turned out the lights for the night and were preparing to enter into the land of Nod I managed to hear him mutter “Cordelia’s ‘coming out’ party eh? Wish to the devil that the girls in the city weren't so The Art Theories Set Forth in Fra Lippo Lippi MliS JOHN FEANKLIN ENGLE According to the popular distinction between art and nature the idea of art includes only phenomena of which man is the cause and that when he acts not spontaneously but with calculation Arts are divided into useful mechanical or industrial and liberal The fine arts are Poetry Music Architecture Sculpture and Painting The last named is the art of which Browning sets forth theories in his poem entitled “Fra Lippo Lippi” The fundamental conception of art theories in the poem is the distinction between Realism and Idealism Realistic art is the imitation of nature its photographic reproduction Idealistic art may be best explained by contrasting the actual and the ideal The doctrine that the most successful art is a successful imitation of nature is erroneous Merely to copy the actual is to degrade if not to falsify it The actual world of form color and life is always changing and the supreme function of art is to divine what underlies the kaleidoscopic change and to incarnate it in a product which combines several of its moods in a representative unity which transcends each one of them Thus it is that the artist modifies and works upon every reality before him for the purpose of bringing out some ideal or transcendent unity He instinctively adds something to nature in one direction and takes away something in another overlooking this kind of fact and insisting on thatsunprcss-in- g many particulars which he holds irrelevant in order to bring into prominence others which strengthen the idea that he wishes to portray Raphael taught that the most successful artist is he who departs from the literal and the actual and who presents to us a synthetic truth which is higher than the analytic truth unfolded by the literalist nence his perennial charm for posterity As Goethe put it “Art is art |