Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...compliments the University football team. The article says: "There is not much to say about the game. Harvard had a better team, a wonderful team--a beautiful working machine without a weak cog, so smoothly running and so powerful that Yale was almost helpless, forgetful even of the gently art of tackling...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts has offered an acceptable solution of the problem of spending Sunday afternoons pleasantly and profitably. A series of lectures on various phases of art is being given Sunday afternoons at the Museum by professors from the University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to which the public is welcome. The Crimson wishes to call the attention of members of the University to these lectures and to cite them as extra-curriculum opportunities for culture which should not be neglected...
...Fogg Art Museum, daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, from 9 o'clock until 5 o'clock...
...where absorbed with the varying spectacle of contending physical forces, it is more than ever necessary to recognize that civilization consists of peaceful industry, of the physical well-being of the people, of good government, of virtuous character and righteousness, of education and intelligence and of the activities of art, science, and the highest functions of the human spirit. To these intellectual and spiritual objects, colleges and universities are dedicated. They are the antithisis of brute force and are essentially a protest against...
...liberal studies in the broad sense are primarily cultivated. The state universities must give their attention largely to technical training; there are few in which liberal studies are not overshadowed by the so-called "practical" interests. Colleges like those in the exchange are maintaining an interest in literature, history, art, and science, on the preservation of which the best elements of our civilization depend...