Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...misconception of what constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems to be to make a study of historical facts and examples of Greek art that we have before our eyes and from them...
...interested in Greek art will recall with pleasure the delightful book Mr. Waldstein published lately about Pheidias, and we would urge as many as can to enjoy this opportunity of hearing him lecture...
...would seem probable, that in America, with the historic facts to urge it on, the American people would cultivate oratory not only as a fine art, but as one of the most indispensable of forces among a free people. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. Indeed, it may be said that among those to whom the higher education of our people has been intrusted - our colleges, for instance - the very opposite course of conduct prevails. Harvard College has not had a professor of oratory for three generations, and this too despite the fact that again and again its graduates...
...12th, 18th, 24th, and 26th. The first lecture will be devoted to the earlier archaeological discoveries concerning Babylonia and Assyria: the second to recent discoveries and present theories regarding the philology, ethnography, and literature of the Assyrians. The third and fourth will outline the history of Babylonian and Assyrian Art, and the-fifth the foreign relations of Babylonia and Assyria. The lectures will be given in upper Boylston, and will be illustrated with stereopticon views. The public is invited...
ENGLISH B.A lecture will be given in Sever 11 on Tuesday. Dec, 21, at two o'clock. Subject: The Art of Narrative, concluded...