Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Harvard students have brought the art of dressing to the greatest perfection attainable on this side of the Atlantic is an unquestionable fact. It is a fact, however, that has perhaps not been sufficiently impressed upon all: and the entering class is to all appearances in need of a few words upon this all-important subject. The following lines, then are particularly addressed to Freshmen...
...pyrotechnically to fame. They were graceful of line, palely florescent of decoration, for which he has a penchant at once Pre-Raphaelite, Russian. Feted as he was with Parisian fanfares, he returned regularly to the quietude of central Europe, to that Slavic ridge which is saturated with spontaneous, vivid art...
...intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been so seldom banal. He can be repetitious and even tedious, but it seems a sheer impossibility for him to be obvious or hollow. Such defects get into works of art when the composer's lust to create is unaccompanied by a sufficiency of sound and charming ideas. But Schubert never lacked charming ideas. Within the limits of his interests and curiosities he hatched more good ideas in his thirty-one years than all the rest of mankind has hatched since...
...Gustav Pauli, Director of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, will lecture in German on "The Impressionists, Liebermann, Slevogt, Corinth" at 1.30 o'clock on Wednesday in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum...
...Greek Sculpture of the Great Age: Fundamental Principles", Professor G. H. Chase, Fogg Art Museum...