Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sixty thousand dollars have been given to endow a chair in the new art department at Princeton...
...promptly answered, from one quarter at least, by the announcement made elsewhere by the Shakespeare Club. The prospectus of the club-if we may call it so, for the organization is not yet completed-embrace a course of lectures by gentlemen who are well known exponents of the art of speaking, readings by Mr. Jones, and recitations by the members of the club. The plan which the club has in giving these entertainments, to bring the subject of elocution before the college at large, is an excellent one. The study of elocution is one which is too much neglected here...
...Dartmouth on the elective system of Harvard: For a man with strong talents for one particular science or art, or for him who has mapped in detail his life for years to come, and can call to his assistance the ablest advice in making his selections of studies, the Harvard elective system offers a premium for laziness, and a position among a large and noted alumni at almost no small exertion...
John Ruskin during the coming month will favor the Oxford University students with a series of lectures on art...
...college grounds. The views from its windows are very fine. This building has a large court in its interior arranged after the manner of the Roman atrium from which branch off the various corridors, officers and reception rooms. The building is several stories high, and terminates unexpectedly with the art-room under its eaves. The college museum is not one half as interesting as the trunk-rooms. The trunks of the students, "as much as five thousand," as one of the students said, are all gathered together in two large attics,-either one of which might easily be transformed into...