Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sixth of Professor Spalding's series of public lectures on "Modern Composers, the Characteristics and Tendencies of their Music," will be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The special subject for this lecture is "Leger and Strauss." No seats will be reserved and no tickets will be necessary for admission. The last of this series will be given on April...
...later educated as a mechanical engineer. He constructed the government sea-wall around Governor's Island in New York Harbor, and another at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. However, Mr. Smith later gave up engineering for painting. He has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. In 1900, he was made Commander of the Order of the Osmanyeh by the Sultan of Turkey. In the following year, he was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and, in 1902, he received a gold medal from the Philadelphia Art Club. Yale University awarded...
...last of a series of four chamber concerts will be given by the Kneisel quartet, assisted by Mr. Herman Gebhard, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets at $1 each may be purchased at Amee's, and after 7 o'clock at the door of Fogg Museum...
...Smith started his career as a civil engineer. He later gave up this for painting, and has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. Mr. Smith is perhaps best known as an author. Among his works are "The Tides of Barnegat," "Colonel Carter's Christmas," "The Under Dog," and "The Wood Fire...
...steamboat, has been hailed as its inventor simply because he had the breadth of imagination and the enthusiasm to embody the impractical ideas of his predecessors in a useful form. And he deserves the credit he is given; for, according to Lord Telford, who said, "Engineering is the art of directing the great sources and powers of nature for the use and convenience of man," he was a true civil engineer...