Word: artful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by the Director, Professor Charles H. Moore, shows that there have been a number of important accessions to the Museum during the past year...
...never accomplish anything. The scoffer shuts himself up in the dungeon of his own mind. Knowledge and love and truth can come only to him that keeps his heart and mind open to receive them. It is pitiful to see a man who deliberately scorns the beauties of art or nature. Infinitely more pitiful is it to see one who scorns religion, who refuses to believe anything religious that cannot be proved to his intellect as a problem in mathematics is proved. History and religion can show this man nothing more wonderful than what he can find...
...when Germany was being torn gradually to pieces by the onslaught of Napoleonic imperialism. A few great men, notably Kant, Goethe and Schiller, remained to re-awaken the national soul. Schiller strove to create perfect natures by the perfection of every quality given us, and by the conception of art as the highest of human activities. The present times, with their material, worldly tendencies, the merging of the souls of individuals into soulless machines, offer a splendid mission for Schiller's conception of art; and that art would be a tower of strength in the struggle for an enlightened, unselfish...
...collection of busts of Julius Caesar, recently put on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum, has been presented to the University by Mr. F. J. Scott, of Toledo, Ohio. In addition to over 30 casts of original busts there are four large studies executed by Mr. Scott, in tended to represent Caesar at the age of 26 and 30 years later, at the time of his assassination. The collection was made after extended travel and study in Europe, the result of which Mr. Scott published last year in a book entitled Caesar...
...Archaeological Institute of America will meet in Boston on December 28, 29 and 30. On the first and last days, meetings will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; on December 29 there will be a meeting in the Fogg Art Museum, followed by a dinner at the Union in the evening. Professors C. E. Norton '46, J. W. White p.'77, J. R. Wheeler p.'85 and Mr. C. P. Bowditch '63 will deliver addresses. Papers will be read by Professors C. H. Moore h.'90 and G. F. Moore, Dr. G. H. Chase...