Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Slipshod English prevails throughout the number in prose and in verse. Among the contributors the thought of composition as an art seems rare. Such expressions as, "The two lawyers . . . . are unusually realistic, perhaps due to the fact that," etc., such sentences as, "It has novelty, punch, heart interest, and almost all the other ingredients which go to make up a smashing success," should not be printed in a document that is sold for more than one cent. The only story in the number, My Friend of the Smoking Room, should be powerful or nothing. It is not powerful...
...National Institute of Art and Letters is holding its annual meeting in Boston this year and will be entertained by President and Mrs. Lowell tomorrow evening. The first session will take place Thursday and on Thursday evening there will be a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston for the members of the National Institute. On the following day the annual award of the Grand Prix of the Institute will take place. It will be presented this year to the American author who has done most for fiction in the United States...
...collection of reproductions of frescoes, vases, and other objects which illustrate the prehistoric culture of Greece has been placed on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. Most of the important relics of this culture are reproduced, including many objects from Knossos, reproductions of stone and clay vases from Melos, and fragments of plant forms from Hagia, Triada...
...present war, lacked the essential of a fair trial. The case of Belgium was well debated by both sides. The question of the necessity of giving economic aid to the Allies was next considered by the pro side, and the fact that the world is debtor to Germany in art, literature, science and sociology was brought up by those opposed. This premise was granted by the opposition. International law was spoken of as something only for college professors to be acquainted with and not to be thought of by any nation when at war. Several speakers brought up the question...
...first of a series of conferences to be held in the Fogg Art Museum on the exhibition of early Italian engravings in memory of Francis Bullard '86 will be conducted by Miss Laura H. Dudley, assistant in charge of prints, this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. This is the most important group of fifteenth and early sixteenth century Italian prints ever shown in this country. The conferences will be open to students of the University and the public...