Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their genius. Their indominatable spirit in the attempt to build the fairest of cities was curbed by the destructive period of the thirty years war. Although the shadow of war was constantly upon the Athenians, they accomplished in eighty years the building of great cities containing wonderful specimens of art; the establishing of a democratic machinery of government with courts of justice; and the development of logic, judicial oratory, and political theory...
...appointment here, from 1870 to 1872, was in Greek. During this time he did much to arouse enthusiasm for ancient literature by giving public readings, nor did he, when called to his chosen subject, abandon his interests in the classics or fail to make notable contributions to the difficult art of interpreting ancient culture to our day. His translation of Homer's "Odyssey" (1891) and that of "Antigone" of Sophocles (1899) are at once masterpieces of English and faithful reproductions, if over such are pos- sible, of the spirit of the originals. His brief introduction to the "Antigone" in which...
...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by he director, Edward W. Forbes, enumerates the many important accessions of the past year. The Museum has received the following additions to its permanent collections of works of art: two water color drawings by John Ruskin--"Convent and Alpine Pass," and "Pass of Faido"--presented by friends of Professor C. H. Moore, the first director of the Fogg Museum; from the French government, eight pieces of Sevres porcelain; a Japanese painting by an early Ukiyoye master from Mr. Owen Bryant '04; and thirty-six plaster casts of Arretine moulds from...
...Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library on Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock. The first lecture will be on Wednesday. The purpose of these lectures is to arouse a keener interest among theatre-goers in the better kinds of contemporary plays, and to sharpen the appreciation of the art of the theatre...
...Musical Club concert before Boston Art Club...