DEPARTMENT OF
FINE ARTS
VOLUME 4
NUMBER 2
FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY
A Thing of Beauty
No word in the language is more abused than “beauty.” A pretty thing is a thing of beauty; a pretty picture is a picture of beauty; and so following. Lacking a proper descriptive term for anything attractive, we, too often, employ the word “beauty.” What term have we then with which to pay just tribute to true beauty?