Word: artful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...temporary shelter, had been put at our disposal by the University authorities. It seems probable that on the same day of the present year--eight years later--ground may be broken for a building which in every way will be worthy to house the splendid specimens of German art given to Harvard University by the German Emperor, other German princes and governments, and numerous friends of German culture both in this country and abroad...
...little rotunda, one enters first the Romanesque Hall, about 70 feet long. By a system of pillars supporting the vaulted ceiling of this hall, alcoves are formed on both of its sides, increasing its wall space and giving ample opportunity for placing properly the many specimens of early mediaeval art in our possession. This hall will contain, among other notable works, the colossal Bernward Column and the bronze gates of Hildesheim Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller...
About three years ago a group of students in the Harvard Medical School conceived the idea that a medical institution in China, undertaken and chiefly manned by Harvard medical graduates, might render good service to the science and art of medicine, and would offer an eminently useful and beneficent career to well-equipped young men who were willing to devote their lives to medical teaching, research, and practice in China. The institution was thought of both as a medical mission and a research laboratory. After consultation with several persons, conversant with the medical and missionary situation in China, the young...
...Relation to the Conservation and the Tariff"; second prizes of $100 each, John Austin Spaulding '12, of Tewksbury Centre, on "A Comparison of Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris' and Euripides' 'Iphigenia among the Taurians'"; Hiram Kelly Moderwell '13, of Fort Wayne, Ind., on "A Modern Attitude towards Art." Thirty-seven of the dissertations submitted were recommended to be considered in the awards of scholarships and degrees with distinction...
...what do these six courses cover? They skip superficially over ancient art they deal with certain phases of the Renaissance, and they take up the process of engraving. True, there are two courses on Archaeology given by Dr. Chase which supplement the study of ancient art. But there is absolutely no mention whatever of the German and Dutch schools, of the later French schools, of portraiture or modern painting, of the Preraphaelite or English school with the sole exception of Turner. Indeed, one-half of the subject is dictatorially passed over. Is not this a rather serious neglect...