Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days gone by, debating was one of the popular sports of the college. The class debates were heralded events. Their coming was marked by placards. The debaters actually had audiences before which to exhibit their skill. But the art has fallen into desuetude...
There is now on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum a collection of pencil drawings by Kenneth John Conant '15, Rogers Travelling Fellow from the University at the American Academy in Rome. The series consists of 73 drawings, chiefly of street scenes, and notable buildings in Rome and Florence. Sketches of the Temple of Concord in Sicily are particularly well drawn. The only large pictures in the collection are two drawings of designs for the facade of St. Peter's in Rome. These have already been reproduced with comments in the American Architectural Magazine for August. The sketches will...
...when winter really comes. Hemenway Gymnasium used to harbor us successfully last year, but now that the Radio School lives there we cannot use it; even if it were available, it would be inadequate, for by December we will be too advanced to spend the winter in the gentle art of right facing. Like Germany, we must expand and like her we have no place to go. Somebody will have to think and do it thoroughly to solve the problem. Unless we find an armory in town or build one here the winter drill is sure to be a dismal...
...taken by professional camera men last June. Much can be said for the clearness, variety and appositeness of the other pictures. It is worthy of note that the Illustrated is this year to furnish press syndicates with photographs of Harvard life--an arrangement that is most complimentary to the art staff of the magazine...
...Assistant Secretary of State F. D. Roosevelt '04, whose names appear on the Committee on Military Science and Tactics; W. C. Forbes '92, Ex-Governor of the Philippines on the Committee to visit the Botanic Garden; C. L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan, on the Committee to visit the Fogg Art Museum and Division of Fine Arts; Judge F. J. Swayze '79, of the Supreme Court of New Jersey on the Committee to visit the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Police Commissioner A. Woods '92, of New York, on the Committee to visit Harvard College; F. A. Vanderlip, President...