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. Review of reviews and world's work . e to the legislature in formulating newlaws and in learning the true attitude of publicopinion toward them. He has built up an insti-tution in Wisconsin that is a model which theFederal Government and ultimately every- Statein the Union will follow. During the last session of the legislature aSaturday lunch club was organized, at which thegovernor and some of the State officers and legis-lators regularly met the university professors—Van Hise, Ross, Reinsch, Commons, Ely, Scott,Meyer, McCarthy and others—to discuss the prob-lems of the State. Such meeting
. Review of reviews and world's work . e to the legislature in formulating newlaws and in learning the true attitude of publicopinion toward them. He has built up an insti-tution in Wisconsin that is a model which theFederal Government and ultimately every- Statein the Union will follow. During the last session of the legislature aSaturday lunch club was organized, at which thegovernor and some of the State officers and legis-lators regularly met the university professors—Van Hise, Ross, Reinsch, Commons, Ely, Scott,Meyer, McCarthy and others—to discuss the prob-lems of the State. Such meetings as these are atremendous force in bringing about intelligentdemocratic government: they are very different,indeed, from the old secret, back-room conferencesof bosses which once controlled Wisconsin in theinterest of private corporations. During his terms as governor Mr. LaFollette appointed alumni of the universityon the Board of Regents and for the first timein the history of Wisconsin appointed awoman member of that body. 748. THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS HOWARD PYLE, ARTIST-AUTHOR themselves, to see straight. It is this passionfor seeing straight, for honest art, no affectation,no sham, that makes different from so much in-struction the whole sjjirit of Mr. Pyles is no wonder that modern illustration, includingsuch strictly commercial work as advertisementdrawing, useful certainly, and capable of the finesttreatment, appeals to Mr. Pyle as the unassumingfoundation on which may be erected a schoolof American art. There is, however, an important , in Mr. Pyles opinion, deserves thishigh place only when it aims to approach the meritof the finished painting. If Mr. Pyle has revolu-tionized our drawing, he has done so by holdingout constantly this ideal, not only in his teachingbut in his own work. Magazine readers willremember the attention given his pen-and-inkdrawings some twenty years ago when he wasillustrating those delightful
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