Word: artful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Anthropological Society will give a series of lectures, during March and April, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The lectures will begin at 8 p. m., and will be open to the public. They will come in the following order...
...follows: "Heartiest thanks for your message. I congratulate you on your successful trip, and wish you much happiness on receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard University, the highest mark of distinction that America can confer. May my gift of the casts of German art prove to the professors and students of Harvard University a pledge of co-operation and an incentive to future work...
...discussed were Pierre Louis, Maurice Barres, Paul and Victor Marguerite and Jean Lorrain. He divided the writers into different schools, but said there was a general tendency of all which could be seen during the last ten years. This tendency was marked by a change from writing for art's sake alone, to writing for a purpose. Instead of placing their scenes in Paris these writers removed their stories from the capital. Barres for example preaches country life and M. Le Roux, believing that the French should know more about the outside world, especially wished in his own works...
...Roux concluded by saying that the suffering and difficulties, through which French society is passing, will not be without their good results, for he believes that this society, which has done so much for civilization, art and science, but which comfort has now made torpid, will be awakened by necessity to a more vigorous and valiant struggle for existence...
...rapid culture on the middle class French woman are pernicious. In this M. Le Roux agrees with him; for, with an ancient race, every-day education must always precede instruction in less tangible matters. Flaubert treats the subject firmly but reverently; his host of imitators, however, have cheapened his art, lost the depth and retained only the sentimental and superficial...