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STUDENT LIFE
Published monthly, excepting the summer months, at Lisle, Ill., is written for and about American Students of Czechoslovak Ancestry.
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STUDENT LIFE PLATFORM.
1—To acquaint the English speaking world and our own younger generation with the historical, artistic, literary, musical and cultural treasures of the Czechs and Slovaks.
2—To make prominent Americans of Czech and Slovak ancestry better known.
3—To present the achievements and activities of American Czech and Slovak students and alumni in America.
4—To kindle a greater interest and desire among Czechs and Slovaks for higher education.
5—To inform and entertain by means of interesting news items, good short stories and rollicking student humor.
PICTURE ON THE S. L. COVER.
Our cover picture this month shows Mr. Albin Polášek’s statue of President Woodrow Wilson, a gift of Americans of Czech ancestry to the Czechoslovak Republic on its tenth anniversary of regained freedom.
In an interview with Mr. Polášek at his Chicago studio, the S. L. reporter, who was one of the first to visit him on his return from Prague, secured the only photograph in Mr. Polasek’s possession of the monument as it will actually appear.
Mr. Polášek is of a diminutive stature, and although almost fifty years old, looks easily fifteen years younger. He is modest, courteous, quick in motion and thought.
Referring to the statue he said, “It will be twenty-eight feet high, that is, the statue proper, made of bronze, will be twelve feet and the pedestal eighteen. It will stand opposite the Wilson Railway station in the Prague Sady (groves). I have tried to present President Wilson as a friend and protector of the Czechoslovak people—yes, that was the basic idea. The memorial will be unveiled this year on July 4th. You see, the Czechs in Prague have held fitting programs on the American Independence day ever since the end of the war”.
How Mr. Polášek came to America, where he has two brothers, one a priest; how he became head of the scultpture department at the Chicago Art Institute; how he modelled some of the greatest monuments in America, including the J. Pierpont Morgan bust in the Metropolitan Museum, the Theodore Thomas memorial in Grant Park, Chicago, the Batterson memorial in Hartford, Conn., Gov. Yates memorial in Springfield, Illinois, and others; how he founded art schools in Rome, Philadelphia, all these and many more interesting facts about