Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little art to get a start...
...President McCosh has done, "from whose instruction not half a dozen of young men have gone out into the world believing nothing," he turns to the influence of the professors at Harvard. "Would," he cries, "that icebergs in college chairs could read Tennyson's poem in the 'Palace of Art' with becoming appreciation! College professors should be rivers and not glaciers, even if they be on the top of Harvard." He at least, however, admits some good in Harvard. "The man who goes through Harvard erect will be apt to stand erect elsewhere. Harvard is either the best...
...allowed to enjoy theatrical performances in term time? This momentous question is once more being agitated at the former university, and the unhappy vice-chancellor, burdened as he is with the absurd privilege of deciding it, is being bombarded with petitions from the friends and enemies of the mimetic art. Placed in this trying situation, the vice-chancellor, in accordance with time-honored practice, will probably take the wrong view and deprive the 34,000 inhabitants of Cambridge of every opportunity of seeing plays, lest the tender and inexperienced minds of the undergraduates should be corrupted by sights which they...
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, says the Herald, having finished editing the Carlyle-Emerson Correspondence, has returned to his important art historical work...
First round. - The men lost no time in getting to work, and went at it in a manner which showed that they were thorough masters of the art. They both went down but such was their skill that neither seemed able to get the other over; finally, however, Bangs' weight told in his favor and he got a leg hold which he retained successfully and threw Lilienthal heavily. Time...