Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American School at Athens is now in its twelfth year. It was founded October 2, 1882, under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America and has been conducted by a Managing Committee of which Professor John Williams White of Harvard was the first chairman. The school is under the direct management of a permanent director, Dr. Charles Waldstein of Cambridge, England. With him is associated an annual director who is chosen each year by the managing committee, from one of the cooperating colleges in the United States. Professor White of Harvard is the present annual director...
...History tells us that there are usually two main parties, opposed in principles. Men are economical or generous, hopeful or despondent. In politics the contrast is as strong. Party principles are innate in men; and choosing the one or the other, men decide political issues as they arise. In America these two widely divided parties have always existed; and at present are called Democratic and Republican. They are so radically different that a thinking man cannot stand neutral. There are times in politics when party lines grow indistinct, but these are only temporary...
...Smith said that the transition in engraving from mediocre to supreme excellence has been very rapid in America. The early process, by which the draughtsman with infinite pains and difficulty reproduced upon wood the work of the painter, was soon replaced by the art of photographing directly upon the wood, and skilful artists began to take the place of the draughtsman. Three things were necessary to lift engraving from the difficult, expensive and unsatisfactory early process to that high position as an art which it has held for many years. These were, first, an artist, then an engraver, and last...
...always found his subjects at home. He has succeeded in showing that there is as much beauty on the rocky shores of Maine as there is in Venice. There are many other artists who have done much to further the development of art in America, but there is no space to give them...
...courses in Education and Teaching offered by the Department of Philosophy, deserves notice as a new feature at Harvard and, in fact, in this country. Its object is the study of the aims and organizations of secondary schools; and before now no other seminary in America has turned its entire attention to this subject...