Word: artful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...buildings is well under way. The regular service of the Library will be continued with as little interruption as may be; but under the extreme difficulties of administration attending, some irregularity must be expected. Books are already in process of transfer to Massachusetts Hall, Emerson Hall, Robinson Hall, Fogg Art Museum, Divinity School Library, Peabody Museum, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Andover-Harvard Library, and Randall Hall. Eventually the greater part of the Library's collections will find a place in Randall Hall. For the present the arrangements will be as follows...
...Museum has received, as a loan from the daughters of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton, four paintings, which are now on exhibition there. A watercolor, entitled "Before the Battle," by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is a brilliant and beautiful piece of color, and a very interesting example of his art. There are also a Madonna and Child, by Sano di Pietro; a Venetian scene, by Gubardi, and "Risen Christ," by William Blake...
...today. To Professor Francke who has been instrumental in securing the magnificent building, to Mr. Adolphus Busch who, actuated only by patriotism and generosity, has given funds which make the building possible, to the German Emperor who has encouraged the movement with gifts of money and works of Germanic art, an expression of gratitude is due. With feelings of relief we note the passing of the unfortunate Germanic Museum, and with gratitude we receive one more thing to teach us that a university is a place where the characteristics and thought of the peoples of the world are mingled...
...Museum has received as a loan from the daughters of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton four paintings which are now on exhibition there. A water-color, entitled "Before the Battle," by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, is a brilliant and beautiful piece of color, and very interesting example of his art. There are also a "Madonna and Child," by Sano di Pietro, a "Venetian Scene," by Guardi, and "Risen Christ," by William Blake...
Those who think Mr. Thomas Lawson's political advertisements better reading than the Monthly ought to look at Mr. C. V. Wright's essay, "A Lost Art". He champions the old Gregorian music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel...