Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Again, art must not be approached through philosophy. It is worse than useless to attempt to see a picture or a statute through the arbitrary line of a rule or a formula...
Finally, there is no absolute standard by which to judge art. Nothing is perfect in art, nothing entirely useless. Every man must judge art through his own personality. If he has reached his opinions surely and carefully, no disagreement can overthrow that opinion...
...critical work may be set as a standard, but, on the contrary, every one has freedom to develop his own taste and perception. This elasticity in the standards of art is shown by the chaging ideals, varying from the days of the Egyptians, to our own times...
...vicinity of Cambridge the facilities for personal study of works of art or their reproductions are unequalled in the United States. A good representative collection of Egyptian art is available at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, is the best Assyrian and Chaldaean collection in the United States. Greek art is represented by a magnificent collection in the Boston Art Museum, arranged in chronological order, and said to rank fourth in completeness of those now existing. There is also a rich collection of Greek vases at the same place...
Mediaeval art, being chiefly architectural, is difficult to reproduce, but the Art Renaissence is well illustrated by the fine collection of photographs in the Fogg Art Museum. Mr. Robinson concluded by urging all men in College to avail themselves of these opportunities for studying art as it should be studied...