Western Hills High School - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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lIE3ill.XlIl4lQr5.1-lIl9lllSllHIl AllR6lIFlllS6lllfS MCKINLBX' MBNDENHALL Moiuus Mouxc Nona O'N su. Pros os NGLAND MADE Two GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS to art during the eight- eenth century-a remarkable group of portrait painters and a modern school of landscape. - Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hoffner, Ramsay, Romney, Raeburn, Opie, and Lawrence painted their English contemporaries with grace and beauty, as well as with true delineation of character. Their por- traits show us the English aristocracy, men of dignity, women of beauty and distinction, and children' of charm and appeal. The modern school of realistic landscape was inaugurated by Gainsborough, Crome, and Constable. Previous to this time land- scapes had been very unreal and purely imaginative. The English painters were the first to cast off traditions and to venture upon set- ting up an easel in the field and painting what they actually saw. After the eighteenth century England continued to be an impor- tant factor in the art world, and has always maintained an essentially English character in both portraiture and landscape. -A. TAYLOR.

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A le., 1 vt, 'N li X 0 i QQNVN RX. R. JONES JOSEPH KIEI. KLASENER LOGUE LONG MCCAKTNEY MCFBE MONG THE GREAT SCIENTISTS many native-born Englishmen are listed. There we find Sir Isaac Newton, whose laws of motion and gravitation form the foundation of much of our science to-day. Charles Darwin, the great naturalist, whose Origin of the Species is probably the best known and yet most misunderstood and mis- quoted of all time, we would also list. For chemistry's Hall of Fame there are Joseph Priestly and Sir Humphry Davy, whose discoveries concerning oxygen and nitrous oxide have tremendous import for us. There is also Roger Bacon, who stressed the importance of experiments and explained so well the rainbow. All the credit should not go to individual men, however. The attitude of the government and the people of England is largely re- sponsible for much of the nation's contribution to science. Oppor- tunity and encouragement to work were given these men, and this, many times, was the very reason for their success: Let us salute, then, both the nation and the men for what they have given us. 1MARY D. TODD. Iwwmmam-2: ws' t :- , llE3lNll3flIblIlSllHIl S4l3lllllE5JNl6lIIflIlSGlIfS

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RIECKLBM AN Scmclc SCHIEL SCHWENKER Sci-HLLING SLUTZ THOMAS TODD HE CHARACTERIQTIC TRAIT of English Composition has been a solidity of musical structure and adherence to form. In the early develop- ment of music systems, the English were alone in working out their own contrapuntal and harmonic designs. While other composers were making many discoveries, the English musicians made no use of this knowledge until many years later. During the sixteenth century the English composers had written many instrumental works, songs, chants, madrigals, litanies, and church services. These were entirely independent of musical learning elsewhere. These compositions were quite advanced in thought and idea of expression for that period. Through the ages there has been in the English composition a quality of thoroughness in mode of expression. This quality some- times becomes what some call a dryness or lack of humor and color. Perhaps this has limited the scope of appreciation of English musicg but who can express this opinion about the music of Sir Edward Elgar? We, of Cincinnati, are learning more English music from Mr. Goossens, conductor of the Symphony Orchestra. -CHARLES F. STOKES. T634 lllihlllxlllllggrlllolllgllilll llllllllllgllllli