Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that he feared that he would be too enthusiastic in praise of his chosen profession. The first platitude of his discourse was that the law is a very good profession to go from. It has many doors, leading into politics, commerce, and the ministry even. It is the art or subject matter of science, or of several sciences. It is the art of persuasion and of advising. As a science, it is not an accident. It is the deadwood in the tree of life, without which the tree could not stand. The study of history is necessary for that...
Michigan University is to receive the sculptor Rogers's entire art collection after his death. It includes over 100 pieces in plaster and marble...
...recent number of the Evening Post has letters from Cornell, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Harvard. The establishment of a new professorship in the "science and art of teaching" at Cornell, the adoption of the "group system" at Johns Hopkins, the scheme of making a university at Princeton, the election of a new president and the building of a gymnasium at Yale, and the increased interest in foot-ball, the Conference Committee and the literary improvements at Harvard are the principal subjects discussed in these letters...
Perhaps the most interesting, or at least the most significant, of these subjects are those from Cornell and Johns Hopkins. The establishment of a professorship in the "science and art of teaching" deserves notice. Because so many go into this profession, we may wonder that the colleges of the country have not given it more recognition. That there are "science and art" in teaching, and that teaching in these times is as much a profession to be carefully studied and learned, before it is practiced, as law or medicine, or the ministry, cannot be disputed. Cornell has taken a step...
...Stewart, '87 has a picture on Exhibition at the Boston Art Club...