Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thereafter, a new distinction, called Honors in Literature, will be open to Undergraduates. These honors will be administered by a Committee representing the Divisions of Ancient and of Modern Languages, and will be awarded at graduation...
Several paragraphs are devoted to the various museums, some of which have entered new buildings or increased the facilities of their former quarters. The Fogg Art Museum has received valuable additions including objects of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Art and a number of examples of Turner's work. President Eliot adds: "Although the Fogg Art Museum was only finished in 1895, it is already time that the problem of enlarging it should be carefully studied, particularly with a view to obtaining ample, well lighted wall space for the exhibition of paintings and drawings...
...Michelangelo's work the sensuous beauty of the elder art gives place to an intensity of life of which the ancient sculptors had little conception. The art of Greece shows us human nature in untroubled freedom, the art of Michelangelo brings before us the poignant strivings of a later day when the soul obtained peace only through the mastery of evil. Life as he sees it is not hopeless, but sublime. Both his sculpture and his poems bear profound testimony to his belief in the realities of Christianity...
Fine Arts 5a.--Greek Sculpture. Lectures, required reading, discussion of ancient originals and casts in the Fogg Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Tu., Th., and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Sat., at 9. Dr. Von Mach. This course is taking the place of Fine Arts 3, and cannot be counted toward the degree of A.B. by students who have already taken the latter course...
...collection of bronzes, vases, and ornaments of Ancient Greek and Egyptian art, given as an indefinite loan by Mr. James Loeb '88, is of equally high character. Obtainable Greek bronzes are very rare and costly, and this series will develop the working Museum in a new direction, while the vases of this collection are an important addition to former acquisitions in this class of objects. Among other important acquisitions are an ancient glass bottle, and a terra-cotta figure from Professor C. E. Norton...