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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.
The feature articles have been written expressly for the Student Life. Permission to reprint will be readily granted.
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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 Czechoslovaks.
2—To make Czechoslovak men of note better known.
3—To present the achievements and activities of American Czechoslovak students and alumni in America.
4—To kindle a greater interest and desire among Czechoslovaks for higher education.
5—To inform and entertain by means of interesting news items, good short stories and rollicking student humor.
The Picture on the “S. L.” Cover.
Our cover picture this month shows Myslbek’s statue of St. Wenceslaus, probably the best product of modern Czechoslovak sculpture. The group, for the equestrian statue is only the central figure, was unveiled in Prague at the International Art Exposition held there in 1909. About the central statue are grouped the figures of Sts. Prokop, Ivan, Ludmila, and Blessed Agnes, the patron saints of Czechoslovakia. Each of these figures is about ten feet high. The height of the entire group from the plinth to the head is approximately twenty two feet.
The artist, Josef Vaclav Myslbek, is the first Czech sculptor whose art is free from all academic influences, all rigid theories. Yet he is a consummate technician, subduing all his work to his sense of form. His modelling reveals restraint, yet his contours have the glow of life. He is essentially a Naturalist without, however, descending to mere copying. He is the first to raise Czech sculpture to a monumental art.
Lest We Be Misunderstood.
We believe that America is a composite of various nationalities of Europe. Its culture is the resultant of the cultures of the various peoples who have immigrated to America. And the more we understand the various nationalities that have melted into this our great nation, the better shall we understand one another. We have taken upon ourselves, among other things, the task of presenting the various phases of Czechoslovak culture, the work of Americans of Czechoslovak ancestry,—all which, we humbly think, will prove of interest particularly to American students of Czechoslovak ancestry and the general American public at large.