Word: artful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...generations ago the successful debater was the intellectual idol of our colleges, and the art of ex tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed...
...first concert of the series of four to be given in Cambridge by the Kneisel Quartet will be held in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 8 o'clock this evening. Tickets for the course admitting two persons are on sale at Amee's bookstore at $6.00. Single course tickets are not sold, but tickets admitting one person to tonight's concert only may be obtained at the door for $1.00. The following program will be rendered...
...distinction as a teacher rested on his many-sided scholarship; on his power to transmute whatever he taught into terms of a common humanity; and on his eagerness to find moral beauty in all excellence. He loved art and literature, and he had a large faith that both could be made to lend their concurrent influence not only to refinement and delight, but also to dignity of life and to the formation of lofty standards of thought and action. He inculcated the virtue of reverence. He awakened and developed ideals in his pupils, he did not impose them from without...
...meeting of the Corporation last Thursday, the resignation of Charles Herbert Moore h.'90, professor of art and director of the Fogg Art Museum, was accepted, to take effect September...
Professor Moore received his first appointment from the University in 1871, when he was appointed instructor of freehand drawing and water color. In 1879 he became instructor in drawing and principles of design, and in 1891 assistant professor of design in the fine arts. He held this position until 1896 when he was appointed professor of art, the position he now holds. Professor Moore took charge of the Fogg Art Museum in 1895 in the office of curator, which was changed a year later to that of director...