Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...character consisting of reading, writing, a little music, and gymnastics. These were not sufficient for an education, so before the middle of the fifth century, a class of men sprang up which gave extra instruction. These were called Sophists, or, as Professor Sidgwick calls them "professors of rhetoric and art of conduct." Their whole life was spent wandering about from town to town imparting knowledge by means of lectures and long discourses to those who would pay. Socrates' life was diametrically opposite to this; he did not go about but stayed at home, he received no compensation for his instruction...
Students in Art school...
...number of books in the Harvard library is 268,551. There should be added to this number nearly 100,000 volumes which are in the twenty-one subsidiary libraries. Yale has a library of more than 140,000 volumes. Both libraries contain many thousand unbound pamphlets and works of art...
Professor Putnam has received an image from Idaho taken from an artesian well at a great dep h. It is considered by good authorities a specimen of antediluvian art...
...process of erection. The electrical building, which is almost finished, is situated in the corner of the President's grounds facing the public road. The new dormitory, Brown hall, is going up rapidly. Its site is on the knoll just beyond Edwards, and back of the Art school...