Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Art Museum has just added by gift and purchase, thirty-two prints to its permanent collections. Among others there are in this new acquisition fine examples of the work of Millet, Jacque, Daubigny, Corot, and Rousseau, as well as two interesting lithographs by Whistler. All of the prints thus added are of the very highest quality and should serve to stimulate interest in the work of the "1830 men" so that a more serious student will be tempted to explore further the wealth of XIX century material, which is to be seen under such favorable conditions at the Museum...
...that a young man of the twentieth century, in mapping out his college course, should turn towards subjects that offer new outlooks and new possibilities of investigation, not realized by preceding generations. The apparent remoteness of Greek and Roman civilization and the long accumulation of important criticism upon ancient art and literature have obscured the indubitable fact that the Classics present such opportunities in the same degree as Economics or Science...
...history of literature. Both the investigation of the papyri and the application of archaeology to literature have the same fascination and call into play the same faculties of the pioneer as experimentation in a new problem of biological or medical science. The study of the interdependence of art and literature may well lead to the attempt at a synthesis of all branches of culture in a given period, a subject which, like Comparative Literature, may some day become the province of a definite department in our universities, and which has always been the ideal of the doctor's degree...
...whole group is a product of the Aldine Press. It is also the oldest, its date being 1501. Aldus Pius Manutius was a Venetian and did some of the most excellent work of any of the earlier printers. He reached the height of his art in 1501 when he printed editions of Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Of the edition of Virgil only a few defective copies remain. It is impossible to find even a nearly perfect volume. Aldus also was the inventor of italics...
...Lectures on "The Della Robbia Family." I. "Luca Della Robbia," by Mr. Charles T. Carruth, of Cambridge. Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum...