Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...John L. Gardner's famous collection of works of art, at her home on the corner of Ruggles and Worthington streets, Boston, will be open to members of the University on Wednesday, April 12, from 12 until 3 o'clock. This will be the only day this year on which it will be open exclusively to members of the University. Tickets will be placed on sale today at the office of the Fogg Art Museum and may be procured at $1 each...
...Arnold Dolmetsch will give the ninth of a series of twelve illustrated lectures on secular music and musical instruments of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of today's lecture will be "French Music of the Eighteenth Century." The tenth lecture, which will be given Monday afternoon, will be on "The Works of Handel," and will be illustrated by several members of the Pierian Sociality...
...article contributed to the Monthly for February, 1910, Mr. Robert Herrick spoke of a former ideal of literary art which "withstood various assaults from the practical, who wished the Monthly to 'get more in touch' -- abhorrent phrase -- with this or that,--athletics, the graduates, etc." "The magazine," he continued, "at any rate in my day, preserved a fine uselessness. I hope it does still!" The Monthly is certainly getting very much "in touch." The present number contains one brief essay, three 'stories, and five poems, at least one, "To a School fellow," by C. V. Wright, being of real excellence...
...melodrama of the Grand Opera House, simply await a master's hand in order to be transformed into literary genres of enduring worth? Mr. Nickerson would have strengthened his argument if he had indicated the possibility of developing the spectacular side of musical comedy into the work of art that it was in the plays of Aristophanes, to which he so aptly refers. He renders his style piquant from a wealth of allusions drawn from a comprehensive knowledge of literature. If writers of the present day possessed this cultural foundation of familiarity with their classics, ancient and modern, they would...
...following appointments have recently been approved by the board of Overseers: Silas Marcus Macvane '73, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus; Charles Herbert Moore h.'90, professor of Art Emeritus; Frederic Ward Putnam '62, Peabody professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Emeritus; Charles Joyce White '59, professor of Mathematics Emeritus; John Williams White, professor of Greek Emeritus; William Barker Hills '71, associate professor of Chemistry Emeritus; Louis Allard, assistant professor of French...