Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thou art a nameless thing...
...hundred thousand dollars has been left to the Fogg Art Museum by the will of Henry E. Wetzel, art connoisseur, traveller, and collector, who died a few weeks ago at Neuilly, France, while serving with the Red Cross. The will, which was made on March 4, 1918, was filed in Boston Tuesday; it provides for an additional hundred thousand dollars to be given to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The gift to the Fogg Museum is to be expended under the direction of Dr. Denman W. Ross, Arthur Pope, and Edward W. Forbes, all of Cambridge...
...current year; W. C. Sabine, who has been acting director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory during the absence of Major Theodore Lyman, has resigned, and Professor E. H. Hall has been appointed to fill the vacancy; Professor Arthur Pope is to serve as acting director of the Fogg Art Museum, until E. W. Forbes, the director, returns from government service; C. A. Adams has been appointed a mem- ber of the committee on Economic Research...
...year is all but over and many among us are leaving Cambridge without knowing half of the University. We can all find our way to Sever and University, but how many of us have seen the glass flowers in the University Museum or have looked through the Fogg Art Gallery? Do you know the name of every building in the Yard and what do you know about the Law and Divinity Schools...
...have here in the Fogg Museum one of the best small art collections in the country; the glass flowers in the University Museum are absolutely unique, and still we are apt to ignore such opportunities and go only to the buildings where classes make it necessary for us to appear. This type of laziness is inexcusable, yet is is a prevalent failing. To leave Harvard without getting the maximum from it is an intellectual crime. Unfortunately we are better acquainted with the interiors of the Washington street movies than of our own university. There is one week left before Class...