Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Bell was wrapped up with his own words and not too mindful of his class. He droned like a summer bee, interrupting the hum every minute with a thunderous blast from a rheumy nose. Suddenly he ceased droning: "And what do you think of "Thucydides's method of art. Mr. Appleworth?" There was a silence, so I thought. Harold nudged me, and I opened my eyes: "Oh you were speaking to me? What is what?" Professor Bell stared and twisted his mouth as I once saw one of Clyde Beatty's lions do. "I asked you what ideas...
...marry," said urbane Philosopher George Santayana, "as their fortunes prove." That women play a big part in assisting fortune was established again last month by four books on the art and science of marriage. Written for women, they cover all sides of the subject, from advice on illicit love affairs to instructions on how to can tomatoes...
Revealing that the staff under his direction had in the course of the past year done everything from arranging chamber music concerts to serving "as technical operators and consultants" to the W. P. E. Adward W. Forben '95, Director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum on Saturday released his Annual Report to the President...
...list of gifts and bequests acknowledged in the report reveal the museum to be an outstanding art center. The only painting in the country by the famous impressionist, Bazille, was given the museum by his relatives. Other outstanding gifts included a Benin bronzebust from Mrs.John D.Rockefeller Jr., a group of bronze statuettes from Grenville L. Winthrop '86, and a number of Sargent's sketch books and portfolios from the artist's sister, Mrs.Francis Ormond...
Among the activities of the staff, apart from simple curating, were listed chemical research in paints and pigments, conservation, arranging 29 exhibits and borrowing works to supplement the museum's collections, procuring guest lecturers, and publishing the findings of historical research in the field of art...