Word: artful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look, said he, back upon the life of the ancient Venetians and Florentines in the times of their great progress in art we are apt to think of their life as particularly bright; perhaps even more so than our own. But they were greatly influenced by the Greeks and if we examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit...
...art building at Wellesley College has just been completed at a cost...
...excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages and narrow streets of Kastin-the little modern village on the temple site-no mortal knows. Thousands of inscriptions, the complete plan of the temple...
...which has been offered to the American school will doubtless require the labor of many years. This is not to be regretted, since these years will develop a new generation of American scholars, and will be no less rich in popular enlightenment, here in America in regard to the art and literature, the religion and the politics of the wonderful race to which we so largely owe our own civilization...
June 26-9 a. m., commencement exercises in Centre Church. 2 p. m. alumni dinner in Alumni Hall. 8-11 p. m., reception by the president in the art school...