Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Tut f’.vctANr or the Demon School. Founder' Day. Apwi 25. 1912. beauty, which (if it were known) concealed not over handsome countenance . Why all this wonderful array, you ask? Have you not heard of the newest department of lire Institute, the School of Applied Design? Well may we hold a pageant to herald our new building, the home of art instruction in this smoky city. Nay. even more! The citadel of art for miles around. Spectators? Indeed there were. From everywhere they came in droves to view the spectacle. Real nobility was present, stamping up and down the campus in worried frenzy for a better view. Aye. splendid it was in every sense of the word. Not a temporary thing, of limited duration, but to last for all eternity. Hereafter shall we hear it talked of. resurrected when all other show and tinsel are forgotten. I-ong live the memory of the pageant, and long life to the school that it presages. WHAT an array of color! Such gorgeous splendor! What unrestrained magnificence! The dusky Egyptian, the subtle Greek, the haughty Roman -all were there. Even Adam and his gentle Eve walked side by side with bronzed Hindus and sober Saracens. Pardon a smile, when one thinks of spindle-shanked architects clad in lavender tights, loosely dangling about their legs like half-inflated balloons. Tis also quite a pleasant memory to think of the coy and demure—the gentle decorators, as flounced and ruifled ladies of the court. And those latter-day geniuses. the illustrators—‘ti not with regret that we recall the vision of them, with kingly heads arrayed in tinsel, and with much-bedecked and embroidered doublets. Oh! the lady painters, did you say? Ahem! Yes. they were there with charming color scheme of marvelous

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FACULTY-SCHOOL OF APPLIED DESIGN