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GRAD DEPLORES OBSCURITY OF RANDOLPH MURAL ARTIST

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"Unknown" was the adjective applied to the painter of the murals in Randolph in a recent CRIMSON article. And nameless he was to everyone about the College.

That such a worthy painter should not receive his due recognition evoked an angry reply from Stuart D. Preston, Class of 1906. "Shades of the Gay Nineties," he begins, "those murals in the breakfast room of Randolph are the work of Edward Penfield, one of the best known artists of his day."

No rooms in college, he continued, were complete without a few Gibson Girls (painted on the walls, of course), and some of the works of Penfield. Every month, indeed, Scribner's Magazine issued a large poster done by the aforesaid Mr. Penfield.

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