Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope that the cares and anxieties of the midyears will not cause the college, or at least that part of it interested in the question, to forget the offer which the officers of the Art Club have made. This offer will remain open until next Monday and seems advantageous enough to be accepted. We have no doubt that there are a sufficient number of persons interested in the aims and purposes of an Art Club to insure its success. The real difficulty is in getting these men together. We would therefore propose that a meeting be held in the rooms...
...sides of the street it is entered through the fine King's Gateway, near which stands the statue of Henry VIII. Within is a large court or "quad," called Neville's Fountain, bounded by the lodge of the master and his assistants. This lodge is filled with works of art and possesses a treasure in the shape of its Gothic Hall. Sir Christopher Wren designed the library of Trinity, and it is a fine specimen of his peculiar style of architecture. Trinity College library possesses the invaluable mathematical MSS. of Sir Isaac Newton, also the Mss. of the poet, John...
...Country Gentleman" all increase in interest. Among the articles of a more solid nature are an account of the revival of interest in antique sculpture after the neglect of the Dark Ages, by William Shields Liscomb, under the title of "The Quest for the Grail of Ancient Art;" a second paper of Madame Mohl's Salon; and an article on "Vernon Lee," by Harriet W. Preston. Dr. Holmes's charming papers are continued. Bradford Torrey contributes a pleasant paper on "Winter Birds about Boston." "A Sheaf of Sonnets," by Helen Gray Cone, and verses by Edith Thomas...
...Art Club is in a moribund condition. The interest in the object for which it was founded has gradually waned until now the society is on the point of disbanding and selling its property. The present members of the club are greatly averse to this course, and, in order to save the valuable collection of the club, they make the following proposition. The entire club property will be turned over to the keeping of any responsible body of students who will guarantee to conduct their society as an art club. If this offer is not accepted before January...
...Harvard Art Club, as may be seen by an article in another column, is in a fair way to become a memory, and nothing more. This state of affairs, it is said, is partly the result of a series of unfortunate elections, and partly owing to the slight interest in art among the students, Be this as it may, it seems a pity to have so excellent a society disbanded, especially when it is remembered that the collection of the club, representing the accumulation of many years, will become scattered if the society does break up. We feel confident that...