Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representing as they do the work of one of the most famous American portrait painters and mural artists, the drawings form an unusual collection to add to the treasures of Harvard's art museum. Most of the drawings are the preliminary sketches for murals in the Boston Public Library and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. One of the most beautiful drawings is that of Apollo in his chariot with the Hours, which forms the decoration over the staircase in the Museum of Fine Arts. Other splendid examples of Sargent's work are the sketches of the Danaides...
...been succeeded by a tendency to belittle him. Only critics in the future, unaffected either by contemporary popularity or by natural hostility to the dicta of the preceeding generation can be just in their estimate. In any event, Sargent must be granted a place of some importance in American art, and the Museum acknowledged fortunate in possessing such examples of his work. The drab mural specimens in Widener require an antidote before the undergraduate novice in art can think of Sargent without prejudice. It may be that acquaintance with vigorous sketches from his prime will aid in counteracting the effect...
...Little, former president of the University of Michigan, and recently elected president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, studied at Harvard after his graduation. For two years, from 1911 to 1913, he was research assistant in genetics, after which he was for four years research fellow in genetics...
...Bell foresees a "reconstruction of the American educational system whereby small, independent colleges will cease to exist, and their places will be taken by like institutions banded together through universities." He further stated that Harvard was one of three other universities working toward conserving "the values of the American college that once was, with all the magnificent values of the great modern university-college, in that it is experimenting with a plan through which students live in groups with scholars, but receive university classroom instruction...
Edward Murray East, professor of Genetics, and John Donald Black, professor of Economics are two of the three American members of a commission recently appointed by the International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, it was learned yesterday...