Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thoughtful and convincing article on "The Musician and the University," Mr. Echmann discuses the advantages to musicians of every type of a university training, and makes some timely suggestions to students interested in the critical and scientific side of music concerning possible fields for research, a phase of the art much cultivated in foreign universities but receiving little attention here. It is good to hear more definite news of the work of Mr. Paul Allen '03, who has made Italy his home and recently had his opera. "The Philtro," performed at Genoa. The Italian critics were warm in their praise...
While in Rome he played an important part in uniting the separate institutions of the Academy of Art and the School of Classical Studies to form the American Academy. The Academy is now under the directorship of Professor J. B. Carter of Princeton, succeeding Mr. Frank Millet, the artist, who perished in the Titanic disaster...
...main object of the School of Classical studies is to encourage scientific research. In the past year there were about twelve students, men and women, in the school, working on different problems not only in classical subjects, such as topography, paleography and Roman religion but also in Renaissance art and Christian archaeology. The greater part of these students are sent as the men of greatest promise from the supporting American colleges. There are several fellowships for which competitive examinations are annually held in New York. These examinations are in charge of the Committee on Fellowships of the University Board...
...investigation of the remains already discovered. A year in Rome is not only of great value to the investigator of some technical subject who can deal directly with material inaccessible to him here, but also opens up new vistas to the general student of ancient history, or literature, or art. He has all the concrete originals before him: Rome and Pompeii are near at hand; and the recent striking excavations at Cyrene in Tripoli are not faraway...
...dramatic art of Menander...