Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Frederick Marquand of New York city has given $60,000 to endow the Princeton University Art School. Dr. McCosh says that four chairs in the school of philosophy are to be endowed...
...Bridgman, a graduate of Harvard, who has recently returned from Europe, has placed on view in Williams & Everett's fine-art rooms a collection of water-colors and sepia drawings, which are very interesting, as showing the influence and tendency of the art instruction at Harvard College. Mr. Bridgman, as a student in Harvard, was under the guidance of Mr. Moore, and while abroad made such studies as were advised by his Harvard instructors. He has returned, having with him studies of Venice, views of her palaces, interiors, and also a copy of V. Cappaccio, which, with a few pictures...
...Chas. H. Morse corrects the statement that the drawings of Mr. L. J. Bridgman show the tendency of the art instruction at Harvard. He says: "This work of Mr. Bridgman's is not only immature, but it is also in many ways seriously faulty and contrary to the principles which are taught in the fine arts department...
...hands of large land-holders. Mr. Page described the character and manner of living of the farming population of North Carolina, and kept the audience in continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in the world," he said, "have developed so far the art of resting." Manufactures are rapidly increasing in importance, especially those of cotton, iron, steel and lumber. In North Carolina alone there are 40,000 square miles of forest as yet untouched. This amount is exceeded in Florida and Georgia, and equalled in Alabama and Mississippi...
...will be due May 15. Subjects: 1. Are we paying off the debt too fast? 2. Should Industrial Schools be established? 3. Is a School of Dramatic Aat possible? 4. Who wrote the letters of Junius? 5. Should the Irish have Home Government? 6. Should books and works of art be admitted free of duty? 7. Should the State support Higher Education? 8. Are there any dangerous classes in America? 9. Should there be proctors at college examinations? 10. Should there be a fence around Jarvis? 11. Do the college authorities sufficiently encourage athletics? 12. Should match games with professional...