Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prizes amounting to $2,000 have been offered by the Society for Electrical Development of New York for the best posters on Electricity. All artists, art students, and undergraduates of any American college or university are eligible to compete for these prizes...
...read. It is better not to read at all than to read without any effort at understanding, for this habit is not only a waste of time, but destructive to the intellect. These students may, indeed must, know how to read books, but reading newspapers is a different art. The first thing to learn is to skip the headlines, except as a guide as to what the topic is. The headlines of the dailies are often unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading as to the nature of the news underneath. To compare the history of the war as, written...
Eighteen new books are already in press and five more in preparation, according to the 1916 catalogue of the University Press, which may now be obtained at University 2. These volumes deal with a great range of subjects, including politics, business, history, literature, poetry, art, religion, eugenics, and sanitation. The most notable authors on the list are Professor C. H. Haskins, of the History Department; Dr. Osvald Siren, of the University of Stockholm; Dean E. F. Gay, of the Business School; Professor Kuno Francke, of the German Department; G. C. Whipple, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering; Professor Masaharu Anesaka...
...volumes in preparation are not yet in final form, little can be given except the titles and authors. These are as follows: "Studies in Anglo-Norman Institutions," Professor Charles Homer Haskins, of the History Department; "Lectures on the Industrial Revolution," Dean Edward Francis Gay, of the Business School; "Poetic Art in Ballad and Epic," Professor Francis Barton Gummere, of Haverford; "Aristotle: Meteorology," Professor Francis Howard Fobes, of Union; and "Judaism at the Beginning of the Christian Era." George Foote Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religions...
...exceptional growth of the Fogg Art Museum during the past five years both in the number and the quality of its works of art is the subject of an article by P. J. Sachs '00, Assistant Director, in a current issue of the Graduates' Magazine. Of the many paintings which have been added during this time perhaps the most notable are these: a highly important "Annunciation" by the 14th century Siennese painter, Andrea Vanni; three parts of an altar-piece by Spinello Aretino; a superb little picture of "Christ in Limbo" in an almost perfect state of preservation painted...